The University Challenge Review
Weekly reviews of University Challenge, offering an irreverant take on Britain's quirkiest quiz show

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Sep
10
The Best Way To Save £1.5b?

The Best Way To Save £1.5b?

Labour have significantly reduced the eligibility for the pensioners' winter fuel allowance. This article in the Guardian summarises the
7 min read
Sep
09
Get lost, deer keds!

Get lost, deer keds!

There is a fly in my eye. Or right next to my eye. It feels like its trying to get
6 min read
Sep
02
Half The World Away

Half The World Away

I've been walking for a week. I got the bus to Glasgow and walked back home along the
6 min read
Aug
20
Paint Me Like One of Your JSO Walls

Paint Me Like One of Your JSO Walls

If you don't subscribe to my Patreon series of Retro Reviews (which you very probably don't,
7 min read
Aug
13
The Olympics of Quizzing

The Olympics of Quizzing

I don't know about you but I've watched a lot more kite-surfing and modern pentathlon in
8 min read
Apr
08
All The Quizzical Ladies

All The Quizzical Ladies

Been trying for the past ten minutes to come up with a lyric or pun-based title to let you all
5 min read
Apr
01
Checkmate

Checkmate

In the past few weeks I've played more than two hundred games of chess. I bought a chess
5 min read
Mar
29
To Blog or Not To Blog, That Is The Question

To Blog or Not To Blog, That Is The Question

Heavy are the hands that type these words. It has been not seven days since I saw with mine own
6 min read
Mar
22
Like Riding A Horse Into Battle

Like Riding A Horse Into Battle

This is the story of how I became a knight (for approximately fifteen seconds). My journey back from a lovely
6 min read
Mar
11
Admitting I Was Wrong

Admitting I Was Wrong

Modern sports punditry, as with everything else in the modern news cycle, exists in a 24 cycle where there is
5 min read