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In less than a month’s time the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest will grace screens across the world. If you are not familiar with...

In 2021, just a few hours from St Andrews at the COP26, then-President of Colombia Iván Duque signed the Declaration on Forest and Land...

On Tuesday 28th March, I was immensely sad to hear that Paul O’Grady had died. O’Grady, for those who are not aware, was an icon of...

As International Women’s Day was marked around the world on the 8th of March, my TikTok feed was filled with one sound – a portion of the...

Deep in the heart of Central Asia, near modern Afghanistan, lies a civilisation lost to time, the Kingdom of Greco-Bactria, a symbol of...

Magic is a varietal word, and it changes meaning depending on who you ask. To some, it connotes a Houdini-esque street performer who can...

What does it take to be considered a “serious” actor? Well, this Oscar season it is all too obvious to point at figures like Brendan...

In 1948, after many attempts at resistance, Czechoslovakia finally succumbed to the pressure of communist rule — an event that would...

Racism in the UK permeates discreetly throughout every aspect of life. Racial biases (conscious or not) are exposed through the dating...

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...

Whenever the weather gets even moderately nice in the UK, you will surely bear witness to great migration. Man, woman, and child from all...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On November 15th, a foreboding figure dominated headlines everywhere: 8 billion. In just 11 years, we’ve added another billion people to...

The categorisation of people as alphas and betas is a pseudoscience stemming from the ethological consideration of animals and their...

Anyone who has been anywhere on the internet – particularly sites like Tumblr – in the past decade, is almost certainly aware of the...

Romanticism, a topic most-likely brought up in the context of a literature or art class, is an idea conceptualized in late...

Our perception of the landscape of current cultural relevance is inherently linked to social media. Nowhere else is this more apparent...