When the buzzing stops
The case for saving insects, and ourselves
Issue 1882
14 November 2025
Everybody Scream: a review
A look at Florence and the Machine’s extraordinary new album.
Campus’N’Culture Podcast
This debut episode of the Campus N Culture Podcast features a generation of ACS Presidents – Tani Akinmoladun, Blessings Mwanza, and Victor Ofodile, who led Imperial’s African Caribbean Society in 2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26, respectively. Baba Odumeru, the current Vice President of Events, explores their journeys through
Physics and Maths departments to sage Huxley and Blackett
Both the Departments of Mathematics and Physics will be burning sage in what insiders say is a “desperate” attempt to combat worsening student satisfaction. The use of sage burning, a practise derived from withcraft, is seen to be a radical departure from both departments’ lack of action. “Look, we don’
We're all failing sleep
University students vs sleep: the eternal struggle.
International fees: short-term manna, long-term trap.
The UK government seems determined to enact a 6% “levy” (more polispeak to avoid the electorate-angering “tax”) on international fees, which would, according to the Imperial President Hugh Brady, cost Imperial an estimated £26 million to the College. “We have lobbied hard against this and will continue to do so,
Kontinental '25
BFI LFF 2025: A portrait of a city of contrasts
Fires & Fascism
A documentary film on wildfires directed by Imperial alumnus Pete Knapp
The Running Man
What happens when entertainment becomes indistinguishable from the truth?
Watson is gone. It’s time to remember Rosalind Franklin.
As tributes pour in for James Watson, science must reckon with the woman his legacy eclipsed.
Britain’s political Battle Royale
Comment writer Samya Banerjee takes a wry look at UK politics – eight parties, zero direction, and plenty of chaos.
TWIS: Imperial spin-out Bumblebee Power awarded project to advance wireless power transmission by UK Space Agency
Bumblebee Power, a spin-out from research in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering developing Inductive Wireless Power Transfer (IWPT), has been awarded a project in collaboration with space mission partner MDA Space to advance power transmission for applications in outer space. The project originated from the work of Professor