• The (Non) Art of Common Sense?

    Donald Trump begins building an America that everybody can understand, but nobody can believe in. The cultural identity of America is changing. Theresa May’s assurances over American support for NATO being described as a political ‘win’ shows just how different the world’s expectations are when dealing with the US....
  • You’re wasting your time!

    Scrolling through various student publications, it won’t be long before you stumble upon an article that may as well be titled My Uni Is Better Than Your Uni Because I Go Here, with a considerable number of these articles essentially doing little more than listing all the reasons Oxford...
  • New year, new me: how to make the most of your time at university

    With a new year comes a new start – or so they say. But really, after a couple of days the feeling of being born again has already been stamped out. Nothing is different from how it was the year before; the weather is the same, the people are...
  • Socumentaries: Hip Hop Society

    Not sure if you want to take the plunge into the dizzying world of the University’s 200+ societies? Don’t know your Blowsoc from your Bladesoc? The Socumentaries team endeavours to sample as many societies as possible so you don’t have to. Nottingham nightlife caters perfectly to my music tastes....
  • University Dropouts: What Happens When Your Course Isn’t Everything You Hoped For

    £9k is a LOT of money by anyone’s standards. But for a course you might not even like, it’s an even more staggering amount to comprehend. As university students, this is made all the more worse by the amount of work we all had to do before even reaching our...
  • Are Lectures Even Necessary?

    University without lectures is like a gin and tonic without ice – the content is the same, but it’s served disconcertingly differently. It is what many think of as the basis of a degree (lectures, not gin). Before we flock to university in first year, we fantasise about lectures...
  • Seeing Double

    Twins, especially identical twins, seem to have a sort of special bond that even science cannot explain. Everybody’s heard a story of the sense of foreboding one twin has when the other, unbeknownst to them, is in danger, or how if one gets hit in the arm the other...