28th March 2023
Rebecca Richard offers a counterpoint to negative stories about the pill. “Suck it up”. What we’re so often told as young girls navigating periods for the first time. We’re expected to sit the hardest exams we’ve experienced so far, take on extracurriculars, maintain healthy lives and friendships all the while wondering if the pulsing pain ...
27th March 2023
Is personal style dead? Style. We all have it. Just not all of us choose to express it. And it’s no wonder really, when at every turn we are being discouraged from expressing our own unique senses of style. So what is style? It’s how we express ourselves. In fashion, our personal style is how ...
27th March 2023
Genevieve Brown shares her suggestions for streamlining your beauty routine. “High maintenance to be low-maintenance” is a fun, recent TikTok beauty trend. The term accompanies videos of people offering time-saving beauty tips. The first video of this kind I saw showed a girl painstakingly contouring her face with fake tan so as to avoid the ...
27th March 2023
Aysha Sohail has some suggestions for those who need some relaxation on a budget! As much as things like retail therapy and going abroad are fun, plenty of de-stressing activities exist which don’t harm your bank account. One thing which helped me at the beginning of the pandemic was going for runs. Even twenty minutes, ...
27th March 2023
Rothery Sullivan makes the case for abandoning daylight savings. Daylight Savings occurs twice a year. We all feel the effects when the clocks go back an hour in the autumn and forward an hour in the spring. The intention of the time change is to preserve as much daylight as possible in the winter by ...
27th March 2023
Anti-phone policies can produce unexpected benefits, but can also lead to difficulties for clubgoers. Clubs exist for hedonistic immersion, and outside factors should surely be left at the door. But when you have a connection to the rest of the world in the palm of your hand, how can these ideals coexist? Disconnection is surely ...
27th March 2023
Haris explores how terminology in relation to promiscuity has changed. If you time-traveled back 60 years and called a man a “slut”, then a strong violent reaction would probably be gathered and chaos would erupt. People were much less open-minded and tolerant towards conflating terminologies used across genders. Of course, people were also much more ...
27th February 2023
Your handy guide to decoding difficult menus. Going out for dinner in Glasgow is a pleasure. The West End especially is booming with fun restaurants. Big or small, cheap or more expensive. As a broke student going out for dinner is not a common experience, but it certainly is something we all do much more ...
27th February 2023
Smaller circles mean stronger support networks, or so Natasha writes. Generally, as I’ve gotten older, the size of my friendship groups have become smaller, although the number of them have increased. Coming to university meant that the singular, large friendship group that I had at school shifted to having a number of friends that I ...
27th February 2023
Has the prevalence of cancel culture online led to more anxiety about saying the wrong thing in person? From Andrew Tate to Ariana Grande, Kanye to Kris, and Elon Musk to Ellen Degeneres, it seems no-one can escape the claws of cancel culture anymore. The existence and increase of this phenomenon has led to a ...
