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We Must Do More Than Just Perform the Past
The week of writing this piece, I had two interesting interactions with media from the past. In a class, the tutor proposes the use of...
Eden
Feb 13, 2023


Why Aren’t We Hairy and Other Questions Answered (Kind Of)
Whenever the weather gets even moderately nice in the UK, you will surely bear witness to great migration. Man, woman, and child from all...
Adam
Feb 13, 2023


The Ultimate Mansplanation Fifty Years Later
To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men. Forty-five years after the 1972...
Elena
Feb 12, 2023


Emotional Expression in Classic and Modern America
I’ve always loved poetry. The ability to express oneself through the written word is so powerful and has led to my passion for classical...
Michael
Feb 6, 2023


Romanticise Your Life. Please.
It would be no exaggeration to say that for me, and probably for many others, January is my least favourite time of the year. Despite the...
Katherine
Jan 27, 2023


Embracing Aesthetic Principles Helps “Winter Blues”
If you’re anything like me, you arrived starry-eyed to the misty ruins, crashing surf, and lamp-lit cobblestones that define the heart of...
Isabelle Holloway
Jan 3, 2023


8 Billion is Not as Daunting as It Seems: Earth’s Census Will Not Destroy Us
On November 15th, a foreboding figure dominated headlines everywhere: 8 billion. In just 11 years, we’ve added another billion people to...
Hannah Nightingale
Dec 8, 2022


Alpha, Beta, Sigma Hierarchy Is More Than Just a Meme
The categorisation of people as alphas and betas is a pseudoscience stemming from the ethological consideration of animals and their...
Charlotte Rabeie
Nov 22, 2022


The 1975 Make a Resurgence
Anyone who has been anywhere on the internet – particularly sites like Tumblr – in the past decade, is almost certainly aware of the...
Eliora
Nov 18, 2022


2022 Reclaims Romanticism
Romanticism, a topic most-likely brought up in the context of a literature or art class, is an idea conceptualized in late...
Hannah Nightingale
Nov 14, 2022


Hadid, EDs and Heroin Chic: Will the Resurgence of the 90’s Aestheticization of Thinness Prove More Than We Can Chew?
Our perception of the landscape of current cultural relevance is inherently linked to social media. Nowhere else is this more apparent...
Catherine
Nov 13, 2022


An Ode to Finding the Right Flatmate(s)
Perhaps the most daunting task facing students moving out of halls in the coming year is the pursuit of a successful living arrangement:...
Elena
Nov 7, 2022


Halloween Through The Ages
My first strong memories of Halloween are of my mum making a huge effort. She would take it on herself to make everything spooky and or...
Daisy Finefrock
Nov 6, 2022


Slow Down! The Threat of Quick Information Delivery in Contemporary Media
“Belgorod shooting: Gunmen kill 11 in attack on Russian trainee soldiers” “Elon Musk under federal investigation over Twitter deal”...
Isabelle Holloway
Nov 1, 2022


Blisters and Biscuits: A Love Letter to Hikes in the Great Outdoors
It’s a grey Monday morning. I have a tutorial to go to, and my body feels like that of an 80-year-old. There are blisters on my feet, my...
Katherine
Oct 31, 2022


Make Halloween Parties More Fun and Less Futile
There are few holidays that are impervious to time. Christmas calls for a tree and presents, New Year’s a countdown to midnight, and...
Trip Brown
Oct 30, 2022


Elon Musk Sits Freely at the World Table
No one is a stranger to the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, apparently least of all Elon Musk. He seemed to make that all...
Jordan
Oct 25, 2022


‘See How They Run’: A Love Letter to Whodunnits, London and Theatre
Amidst the drama-filled release of Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling and controversial Marylin Monroe biopic Blonde, Tom George’s...
Eliora
Oct 14, 2022


The Kardashians Are Educational (I Promise)
The anticipated release of the Kardashians’ new reality show, of the same name, aligned in April this year with a brief visit home to see...
Elena
Oct 13, 2022


The Misogyny Behind the ‘I-Hate-Taylor-Swift’ Bandwagon
Beginning as a teenage singer-songwriter to now becoming the personified music industry itself, Taylor Swift rests in the eye of a storm...
Hannah Shiblaq
Oct 13, 2022
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