Matteo Everett

Ah, Christmas movies. You come and you invade our channels for a month a year. Us students gather round, begrudgingly watching them with that one flatmate who actually cares. Parents despair as their children, finding excuses in the winter common cold to bunk more and more time off school,...

So you’re going to be a teacher, then? Yes, bitch, and I’m gonna teach you how to live. I’m a second year English student, and I love it all; the reading, the faux-intellectual discussions, the sparse timetable… until I realise it’s 2am and I’m reading Batman comics, we’ve been...

Ah, porn – the final frontier. Though there are few taboos left in the uni social sphere (post-Crisis hookup stories are often told in excruciating detail), the minute pornography is mentioned, people tend to turn away. It’s no secret that people are shy about this topic – but it’s...

As second and third years begin to flock back into the hallowed streets of Lenton, it is important to remember that our neighbours aren’t just students. Zero Degrees West conducted a nationwide survey on OnePoll about if people in the UK really do love their neighbours. The survey raised some...

So, Rothesay and Kimbolton Avenues probably aren’t the two most burgled streets in Britain; if a 2014 article published on an offshoot website of The Independent is to be believed, no postcode in Nottingham is even in the top 20 list of most-burgled areas of Britain. However, there’s no...

So you’re finally here! Registered, unpacked, and ready for endless games of Never Have I Ever (eugh), we would like to welcome you to the University of Nottingham with our very own Jill Forsdick bringing you tips on how to find a balance during Welcome Week. Prioritise making friends The first...

We’re all familiar with the literary canon, thought to be the realm of dead white men. But when we are always told that the classic love story is Jane Eyre and the quintessential horror is Dracula, we feel like we might be missing something. In this series, we uncover some...