What kind of stories and topics can you find on The Tab?

The Tab publishes student-written news, entertainment, and lifestyle coverage, with a strong focus on UK universities. Its content splits into four main areas: breaking campus news, viral and pop-culture stories, nightlife and lifestyle guides, and opinion pieces. If you're looking for student-perspective reporting on university life or fast-turnaround takes on trending internet culture, that's the core of what the site does.

Breaking news and campus stories

The Tab's news coverage centres on UK universities, and its campus pages list a fixed set of institutions it follows:

Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brookes, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, King's, Lancaster, Leeds, Lincoln, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton, St Andrews, Sussex, University of East Anglia, Warwick, York.

Typical campus news includes industrial action and institutional decisions. One current example on the site: "Eight UK universities already plan to strike over job cuts in the 2026/2027 academic year," with a note that staff at two Russell Group universities will strike in autumn. Another example: the University of Edinburgh closing its Scottish and Celtic programmes for 2027, described by critics as "cultural vandalism."

This is the section to check if you want student-facing coverage of strikes, course closures, and university policy rather than national news.

Entertainment and pop culture

Entertainment is one of the site's heaviest categories, and it leans toward whatever is trending on streaming and social media right now. Recurring subjects include:

• Netflix shows — for example, coverage of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, including the real-life crime scene photos used in the Borden trial, what the real Lizzie Borden's prison time was actually like, and why the show's creator picks the subjects they do.
• Reality TV — Dancing With the Stars cast gossip, MAFS, Love Island.
• Influencers and viral figures — first-person night-out pieces, OnlyFans creators, and viral clips with view counts in the tens of millions.
• Music and fandom — for example, why a BTS member is absent from a given show's second season.

The tone is conversational and reaction-driven rather than analytical, so treat these as quick reads on a trending topic rather than deep reporting.

Lifestyle: nightlife, fashion, and guides

The site's own description names fashion, nightlife, and guides as core coverage, and the section labels back this up — you'll find "Guides" and "Trends" alongside the news and entertainment categories. This is where student-life service content sits: where to go out, what's happening, and how to navigate university life.

Opinion and comment

The Tab also runs opinion and comment pieces written from a student perspective, which is consistent with its stated model of content "written by students at top Universities." Expect first-person arguments and takes on campus and cultural topics rather than neutral reporting in this section.

How to decide if it's for you

One practical note: the campus list above is fixed to those named universities, so if your university isn't on it, expect less relevant local coverage.