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Haiden Allsopp Most of us have heard about series like Percy Jackson, and we could probably name some of the Greek gods, but how much influence do these classical myths actually have on our culture? Throughout history, myths have been used as a means to reinforce social hierarchies, gender...
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Jamie Carey From quantum mechanics to astrobiology, and from space travel to special relativity, Project Hail Mary draws on a range of concepts that even physics students might need to revisit. In a genre where scientific accuracy varies wildly, from the meticulous realism of Interstellar to the outright fantasy...
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Calista Kiloh Timothée Chalamet recently said in an interview that he doesn’t want to be working in ballet or opera and that it’s kept alive even though no one cares about them anymore. For someone who has been immersed in the arts much of his life and now sits...
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Hareem Babar Nottingham has long been recognised as one of the United Kingdom’s major student cities. With two large universities, the University of Nottingham (UON) and Nottingham Trent University (NTU), the city hosts more than 50,000 students, meaning that roughly one in seven residents are part of the student...
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Oscar McKevitt Flack War is once again raging across the Middle East. And once again, America is unnecessarily at war in the Gulf. The first Gulf War, in 1991, saw America assemble a coalition to eject the army of Saddam Hussein, who was occupying Kuwait. This was a time...
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Jamie Carey Sir Tony Blair once argued that “the route to the summit lies through the centre ground”. Having won three elections with New Labour, he perhaps had a point. For much of the past three decades, success in British politics has appeared to depend on capturing the political...
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Lauren How In the present day, social media and online trends often favour new and upcoming works of literature, marking a move away from the classic literature that is often a foundation of school curricula and at the heart of literary debates. We must ask ourselves why, beyond the...