8th December 2019
Rachael Banks Writer Film remakes: an opportunity to see beloved characters (and those you love to hate), come to life in different lights, for better or for worse. Given the attempt to rewrite history through the inclusion of ethnic minority characters in remakes, puts an onus on the social responsibility of filmmakers and gives a ...
8th December 2019
Benjamin Coulson Writer The collapse of Thomas Cook in September has had me thinking about why travel agents still exist and dominate a major part of the travel sector. In a world of SkyScanner, Airbnb and TripAdvisor, I’ve found myself asking whether travel agents actually perform services that we can’t perform on our own, from ...
8th December 2019
Kate Barr Writer It was through coincidence I ended up being in Belfast the day Northern Ireland finally legalised same sex marriage and abortion. As a Scot living in London looking for a cheap way to visit home at the last minute, I discovered that flying to Belfast and then getting a ferry over the ...
7th December 2019
Hannah Patterson Views Editor Content Warning: This article discusses sexual abuse, online grooming, gaslighting, and bullying. Online grooming is a term we hear thrown about a lot these days. Parents warn their kids against it, schools have policies on how to protect students from it, and being street-smart has evolved into being web-smart. It can ...
7th December 2019
James Yucel Writer With mere days until the big Christmas election, party leaders are as active as ever; on the door, on the phones, on the airwaves and for some, on Twitter. For a man consistently polled as the most unpopular Leader of the Opposition in a hundred years, spending your time on a platform ...
7th December 2019
Megan Farrimond Writer London-based trio Palace have been touring the UK in promotion of their second album, Life After, stopping off at the fairy-lit ceilings of St Luke’s in Glasgow’s East End. Both the main act and the support, All We Are, brought a little slice of summer into what was a dreary Monday night ...
7th December 2019
Sophie Kerchanan Writer Broken noses, busted lips, smashed phones, and lost belongings, these are just a number of things I’ve witnessed leaving a mosh pit at the end of a gig. When you’re in the midst of it the pit is met with multiple reactions, the two most common being unbridled enthusiasm and the other ...
6th December 2019
Rosie Shackles Food and Drink Editor In the run up to the December General Election, the NHS providers chief, Chris Hopson, has urged party leaders to refrain from using the NHS as a political weapon. Despite this, the NHS has overtaken Brexit as voters’ top priority, and has been deeply entangled in politics since it ...
5th December 2019
Bethany Woodhead Editor-in-Chief In a world of hyper-connectivity, where you are one click away from peering through a 24-hour window to the intricacy and details of everyone’s lives, we’re becoming increasingly lonely and super dependent. We live in a society where we find it near impossible not to scroll aimlessly through our phones if we ...
5th December 2019
Kristy Leeds Writer It’s…. Rebekah Vardy’s account. That little sentence at the end of a suspense filled tweet that brought the nation together on twitter over the united love of drama and especially, WAG drama. In case you don’t know, we are in the middle of a WAG war. But what is a WAG? WAGs ...
