Toby Green talks to the newly appointed shadow Higher Education Minister about his turbulent political career and his plans for the future
Five minutes into our interview, and already Boris is into his stride. “I’ll tell you the difference between our lot and your lot. When I was at University we were very sharp elbowed.
Harriet Bingley explains how working abroad not only delays entering the adult world but also give a boost to your CV
An uneasy lull has descended upon my third and final year at York. Until relatively recently, I was in a healthy state of excitement about the rest of my life; then I foolishly began investigations into my future ‘options’.
The scientific briefing with Luke Boulter
In 1996 a farmed goose in the Guangdong province of China was isolated as the first death from the highly pathogenic Avian Flu virus H5N1 strain. Now this has become synonymous with death, but at the time it was just another virus to be monitored. One year on, the same viral strain infected 18 humans in Hong Kong, 6 of these cases proved to be fatal.
As Welsh metal superstars Bullet For My Valentine round off their latest sell-out UK tour, Aaron Carey and Gemma Day talk to drummer Moose about fans, family, and a certain feud…
The past three months in the lives of South Wales’ most famous sons, Bullet for My Valentine, has been the stuff of dreams.
Ben Toone speaks to the guide of York’s (and most likely the world’s) first ghost tour, Mark Graham, and delves into York’s sinister past and spiritual activity
In 1953, 18 year-old Harry Martindale was working in the basement of the Treasurer’s House when he witnessed a troupe of Roman figures, complete with badly-dyed green tunics, spears and armour, who were seemingly walking on their knees through one wall to the next.
It’s a terribly stressful experience being in the third year, especially if you’re an English student. Almost everyone I know has exams, or a dissertation (or, in some unlucky cases, both); while I don’t actually have either. Well, I have a solitary exam at the beginning of next term (which I prefer not to think about), but otherwise, it’s all about the assessed essays.
In terms of my aspirations to become the most boring person I know, 2006 had an auspicious start. While my brother celebrated in Edinburgh and my parents were out getting drunk with the neighbours, I sat at home and dithered at length over the programme with which I should usher in the new year.
Nan Flory explores the recent explosion in York’s hip-hop scene. Talking to York’s own Mad Science Project, and to London-based Fenna, provides an insight into this growing subculture
Traditionally, hip-hop belongs to New York, people who can spell their names with their fingers, poverty, graffiti, tracksuits: pretty much everything York is not famed for.
Risottos are a useful way of using up spare vegetables whilst at the same time feeding a family of housemates who are all craving winter comfort food. It is also fairly cheap, since you can get by with a few store cupboard essentials- rice, stock, herbs, even cheese.
Toby Hall speaks to Lord Hutton, the Baron, Knight, QC, and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland about his contorversial judgement on the war in Iraq that left York Chancellor Greg Dyke out of a job
Lord Hutton pauses and looks at the floor. “No, no, I’ve never had any political aspirations I’m afraid. I’ve simply concentrated on being a good barrister, and then on being a good judge.”
In 2005 Adam Hewitt made a New Year’s resolution to watch a film a day for the entire year. How did he cope?
In the dark days that saw out 2004, I made my first ever New Year’s Resolution. In 2005, I would watch a new film every day. Amidst howls of derision from my peers (“It’s impossible”, “You’re wasting your life”), I firmed up my plans for this odd challenge and waited for January 1 to roll around.
Tom King and Dan Kipling take a look at whats coming up on the big screen
The first week of February sees the release of Walk the Line, the story of country legend Johnny Cash. From humble Arkansas beginnings Cash signs with Sun records and begins touring with the likes of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.
In 1972, in the midst of the so called ‘Serene’ Olympics in Munich, a tragedy occurred. 8 Palestinian terrorists, going by the name of ‘Black September’, scaled the walls of the Olympic village and took 11 Israeli athletes hostage, eventually butchering them before being killed in a shoot-out with the German police.
“Every war is different, every war is the same.” These words, spoken by central character Anthony ‘Swoff’ Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal’s brilliant, multifaceted performance), form the core of Sam Mendes’ slightly unconventional war film.
Before I saw A Cock and Bull Story, I had never heard of its ‘source’ novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne; a book famous within certain circles as being ‘unfilmable’.
