Crime 101
A familiar crime story that finds depth in its characters
Tarun Nair
Chief Copyeditor
Essays in Love
A stage-by-stage analysis of a romantic relationship from beginning to end, Essays in Love doesn’t completely lose its focus amid the passion of love, but it isn’t so objective that it reads like an academic paper. It’s full of discomfiting facts for romantics everywhere: chief among them
The Firebird at the Southbank Centre
Saturday 18th saw the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Southbank Centre play Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet The Firebird, his first of many orchestral pieces commissioned by the Ballets Russes, and my personal favourite. Being something of a classical music fan, I went along to my first major performance of
Subservience
What's the worst that could happen if a sentient humanoid falls for a married man? A lot, says director SK Dale
The Room Next Door
Why The Hell Has Euthanasia Not Been Legalised Yet: The Movie
BFI London Film Festival 2024: What we're looking forward to
A selection of the most interesting submissions to this year's BFI London Film Festival
Grand Theft Hamlet
Cult classics from theatre and gaming combine in an unlikely partnership. The result is a genuinely sidesplitting comedy – and a sobering documentary about socialisation during lockdown.
The second messiah, or how Trumpism weaponised religion
The party of choice for the white practising Christian, Republicans have had especially strong support from white Evangelical Christians – in every election since 2000, a greater proportion of them have voted for the GOP ticket than any other religious demographic. This has only grown since 2016, with as much as
NSS results reveal downward trend in student satisfaction across most College departments
Imperial is below the national average in three themes in the National Student Survey (NSS), according to this year’s results. It placed in the bottom quartile in “Assessment and Feedback”, with 11 of 17 departments under the 25th percentile of all British providers for their respective subjects. The College,
Dual protests at the Science Museum and Queens Lawn
Parents for Palestine and Palestinian activist groups at Imperial held protests on Thursday
The ugly truth about British colonialism lies in the Indian Ocean
The announcement of the Chagos Islands hand-over to Mauritius couldn’t come soon enough.
Physics department second-worst performance in the NSS
Poor results revealed in a department meeting; Medicine tops London unis