Culture

Choosing to Be a Man: A Review of Martin Luke Brown’s man oh man!

What does it mean to choose to be a man today? Martin Luke Brown turns toward vulnerability, reflection, and empathy.

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College considers scrapping Wardens

Student representatives worried by consequences on residents’ safety and welfare.

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ICU apologises for issues with digital systems

Imperial College Union (ICU) responded to an open letter criticising flaws in its digital transformation, shared in the wake of the Union’s rocky move of the Student Group Shop from eActivities to SUMS. The letter, attributed to “a collective” of students, was addressed to the ICU Board of Trustees

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President Hugh Brady calls for internationalism in annual address

Global uncertainty and crisis push the College to look outwards.

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March elections turnout fails to beat last year's

As voting closed at 2pm on Thursday 12th March, over 146,000 ballots had been electronically cast in the 2026 student elections. The turnout for student-run Clubs, Societies and Project (CSP) Elections was 28.8%, while the turnout for non-CSP “General” Elections was 24.4%. Both turnout rates were slightly

Business

The $1.95 billion soda is now in the UK: meet Poppi

From kitchen recipe to Shark Tank pitch, Poppi’s case stands out in the beverages industry.

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Imperial Confessions faces backlash after featuring posts targeting Chinese students

Two posts on Chinese students’ language skills and another mocking them prompted a wave of criticism and threats.

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Grok removed from College AI platform

Grok, the generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, is no longer available on dAIsy, Imperial’s artificial intelligence platform. Staff and students can still converse with various models of ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama. Grok, which is part of billionaire Elon Musk’s tech empire, has been at the

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Imperial defeats Sheffield in University Challenge

Imperial College London’s University Challenge team has progressed into the semi-finals after narrowly beating the University of Sheffield 160-120.   Sheffield took a strong lead, but Imperial managed an impressive comeback thanks to the efforts of team captain Oscar O’Flanagan.  “Imperial, that kimchi keeps bringing you luck,” quipped host

Books

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

A delicious collection of Murakami’s unique brand of realistic weirdness in 24 short stories. Some ended abruptly, some ended perfectly, some could only be understood in a certain frame of mind. It’s hard not to be drawn back again and again by any writing by Murakami – to dislike

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Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass is a beautiful collection of stories that, broadly, follow the life of the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer (a botanist and professor of environmental biology who is of Native American descent), and her evolving understanding of the relationship between scientific and indigenous ways of knowing, along with the implications

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The Dream of the Jaguar

I really enjoyed The Dream of the Jaguar. It follows the life of an orphan found in the street by a mute beggar woman in Maracaibo, Venezuela, who builds his life up from poverty until he becomes the most successful surgeon in the country. This family saga is divided into