• Film Review – Trash

    As the famous idiom goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, and nowhere is this phrase is more visible than in the landfill sites on the outskirts of megacities in developing countries. Here, the dump is a hive of activity and home to thousands who working through the mountains...
  • Brazil 2014: A UoN Retrospective

    A month after the 2014 World Cup, third-year History student Nico looks back on his time in Brazil… Considering all the hysterical pre-trip scaremongering I had been fed by friends, family and the national media, I was half expecting, upon boarding my Brazil-bound flight, to be flying into a warzone with...
  • The Cult of The Captain

    A recent piece by Sir Clive Woodward in the Mail on Sunday, the retirement from international football of Steven Gerrard and the recent struggles of Alastair Cook have all posed a philosophical question about the role of the captain. Dan Zeqiri examines… Of all of the solutions offered by...