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    Why is support for Ukraine declining?

    Alfie Johnson On 24 February 2022, the world was stunned as Vladimir Putin signalled to commence air and missile strikes across Ukraine, as Russia launched a simultaneous ground and air campaign against their neighbouring country. The world came to a standstill, as horrific images of death and destruction emerged...
  • ‘Musicality’ Presents: Footloose, The Musical! – Interview

    Move over Kevin Bacon, UoN’s musicality theatre society, Musicality, is cutting loose on the dancefloor with their very own production of the family favourite ‘Footloose, The Musical!’...
  • GRAMMY Predictions

    On the evening of Sunday the 4th, the 66th Annual Grammy Awards will be presented by Trevor Noah in Los Angeles. Whilst the last few years have tarnished the awards with further controversy, and a continued lack of diversity in the main categories, the reality remains that winning a...
  • Unravelling Autonomy, Control and Freedom: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Intricate Social Commentaries in Poor Things (2023)

    Natalie Howarth Catapulted into a weird and wonderful fantasy land that is a steampunk spectacle of Victorian society, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things places female autonomy at the forefront of Bella’s ‘Frankensteinian’ and bizarre bildungsroman. The unconventional scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) resurrects Bella (Emma Stone) following her suicide...
  • Why Oppenheimer must sweep the Oscars

    Tomos Millward With dwindling ratings, divisive politics, and the general decline of cinema, the Academy finds itself in its worst position in its almost 100-year-old history as we approach award’s season. Thankfully, Nolan’s Oppenheimer has not only provided audiences with one of the great films of recent years, but...
  • Storytelling and Social Change: The Impact of Politics Within Art

    Evie Crossland The desire to tell stories is a quintessential element in defining our humanity. In the early days of human history, cavemen created drawings depicting barbaric battles between humans and animals, and were used as effective ways of communicating stories about survival and life.  For millennia, we have...
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    War Looms in South America: Guyana under Siege

    Thomas Martin    The dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo region has been long under dispute until, in 2023, Venezuela announced that their own referendum, claiming to have overwhelming support for the annexation of the Essequibo region, sparked fears of a Venezuelan invasion, leading to the Guyana-Venezuela...