Star Wars: The Force Awakens burst onto our cinema screens last Thursday, with tens of millions of people around the world going to see it at the cinema. As one of the most anticipated films of this generation, it’s no surprise that it smashed nearly all box office opening weekend records, raking in approximately $517 million worldwide, according to tracking site Box Office Mojo. James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster Avatar remains still the world leader in overall takings, which netted around $2.7 billion globally, but Star Wars is still just in its opening week. Its takings are surely to accumulate rapidly over the holiday period. But one thing is almost certain: they won’t accumulate as rapidly as a blockbuster video game. If you compare the figures, launched of major video game titles consistently trump launches of the biggest blockbuster movies. Star Wars netted just over $500 million in a weekend, but on its first day, the smash-hit game Grand Theft Auto V brought in over $800 million. To put that into perspective, the city-state of Singapore, which has the 6th highest GDP per capita in the world, made about the same amount of money in the same span of time. It was the highest amount brought in
Author: Jack Hadfield
Campus Crazies: Women’s Officers Who Have Gone Off The Deep End
You’ve probably heard of Bahar Mustafa, the diversity and welfare officer at Goldsmiths University in London. She shot into the limelight after tweeting in support of #KillAllWhiteMen and banning white males from a conference on – ironically – diversity. Schadenfreude always catches up, and Mustafa last week resigned from her post – on International Men’s Day, no less – after allegations of harassment and bullying from colleagues. Bahar Mustafa resigns on #InternationalMensDay Poetic end to a joyous day #KillAllWhiteMen pic.twitter.com/DYmLREyjpE — Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) November 19, 2015 But Mustafa is not alone. Social justice warriors are deeply embedded in the hierarchy and structures of the British university system. As a public service, I’ve combed through the track record of women’s officers in some of the top universities around the country, so that you don’t have to. Thank me later. Stephanie Kelley Stephanie Kelley is the WO for Oxford. Oxford University is famous for holding debates with the Oxford Union on topics of all variants, with no real restrictions on who can talk – what other modern day university would dare to host Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the EDL? However, Ms Kelley clearly isn’t a fan of the right to