Thursday, 12 March 2026

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In The News

Metrolink tram tragedy

-Credit:Jake Lindley / Manchester Evening News On Saturday, 22nd February, tragedy struck in Manchester city centre when a Metrolink tram collided with a van at around 10am, resulting in the death of 3-year-old Louisa (Lulu) Palmisano. The van had dangerously pulled out in front of the tram, which was unable to stop in time. The […]

Science & Tech

Majorana 1: A Major Dealor just Major Hype?

The idea that Microsoft would rather discover a new state of matter than make the Teams calendar even slightly usable—while filling me with rage as a uni student—has shaken the world to its core, and this may be for good reason. Majorana 1, Microsoft’s new chip, has just eight qubits. Despite this small number, what […]

In The News Our Keele

Preview of May election

This May signals the return of local elections to the borough of Newcastle under Lyme for the first time since 2022. There are nine seats up for grabs within the Staffordshire County Council across the borough, all of which voted for the Conservative Party at the last election, in a clean sweep that saw Labour […]

Science & Tech

AI wins Nobel prize revolutionising drug discovery

Each year, the Nobel Prizes celebrate some of the world’s most influential scientific breakthroughs. Previous winners include renowned physicists, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, whose discoveries made unquantifiable contributions to the realms of radioactivity and theoretical physics. In a groundbreaking announcement, the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize was awarded to two researchers at Google’s AI research […]

Arts and Culture Music

The band: Christian Music

Harnessing a cacophony of distortion, Christian Music’s debut album European Tribunal reflects the gallows humour and pessimistic energy endemic of Britain in the 2020s. It is the perfect soundtrack to thrash around to in the remaining days of our crumbling empire.

In The News

Cardiff University axes arts department

The arts are on the chopping block once again. Cardiff University is the latest in a wave of UK institutions proposing the closure of creative programmes, joining the likes of the University of Wolverhampton—where all 138 performing arts courses were suspended—and Canterbury Christ Church University, whose English Literature course was deemed “no longer viable” as […]

The Shallot

Union Officers state: “no condom for 24 hours after shag week”

In an effort to raise awareness for the Union’s educational‘Shag Week’, Officers have promised that we don’t have towear protection this weekend if we engage with their posts onInstagram. “You don’t have to wear a condom if you liked ourposts about Shag Week.”As part of Shag Week at Keele University on Monday,Officers shared important information […]

The Shallot

Exclusive: The Secret Society postpones going public

Our team were contacted last week by the president and ringleader of Keele’s official secret society, to inform us of their postponing their grand reveal. “The traps are set, influence is secured, now we must wait for the perfect time to make ourselves known,”— Theo White (3rd Year Computer Science) He emphasised that he and […]

In The News

The Far Right and Germany’s election

Across Europe, far-right parties continue to gain ground—and Germany is no exception. In November last year, the governing coalition of SPD, Grüne, and FDP collapsed after the FDP made demands that clashed with the coalition agreement. But the real political earthquake came on 29th January, just 26 days before early general elections: the CDU and […]

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