Not everyone is a festival or concert kind of person, but after this summer, I have found that I definitely am. After listening to the Wallows on the first day of Reading, I experienced temporary hearing loss, as did all my friends while we were walking away from the stage. Everything sounded muffled, and I also appeared to be shouting at a very high volume just to be heard by my friends and just to hear my own voice, while at the same time, receiving weird looks from people walking around me. 

Promoters of the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix used the slogan “expect the unexpected”, and this certainly turned out to be true. With shock podiums and championships getting even tighter, Baku definitely delivered. Today, we will recount three of the best storylines from the 2025 race.

Round seventeen of the 2025 F1 season takes us to a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan. With McLaren within touching distance of the World Constructor’s Championship, the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on September 21st looks to be a thriller.

Have you ever been in an extremely deep sleep, the softness of your mattress feeling as comfy as a cloud while the most random, incomprehensible dream fills your mind uncontrollably? But next thing you know, it’s a few days later and you’re forcing a dream about an event that occurred during the day – it no longer being a subconscious one. Well, I’m sure you have experienced this at least a few times in your life because I most certainly have. But the question that made me the most curious was: ‘why do we only dream subconsciously at certain times?’. This question popped up in my head, funnily enough, during my attempt at sleeping during the sweltering, hot UK weather. Because it seems odd that one night you’ll have such a mixed, unfathomable and sometimes quite abnormal dream and the next night your mind is blank, and no dreams fill your brain but instead are filled with forced thoughts.
So, enough contemplating and questioning, and now time for answering.

As we approach the end of the year, it feels like a good time to pause and reflect on what’s seemed like a very fast-paced last term. Upon the request of Cecilia, our excellent Editor in Chief of Unconquered Peaks, I’ve transformed my muddled reflections of the SLT’s past 8(?) weeks into a hopefully succinct yet somewhat entertaining article.