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 ...
27th February 2023
Tired of that pit in your stomach when you’re doom scrolling? Here’s how to curate a more positive feed. I recently had an epiphany about my social media usage after finding myself four videos deep in “story times” full of tears before bed; this was not entertaining, completely irrelevant to my life and not what ...
27th February 2023
What does it mean to have a platonic soulmate and how do they compare to romantic partners? You hear stories of couples who sat next to each other in their first seminar, or were flatmates in their first year, or met at a football social and the rest is history. A history that’s retold and ...
22nd February 2023
Trend cycles make us individual, not unoriginal. In a world dominated by capital, originality is seemingly a falling trend. We live in a world of specific aesthetics, defined by micro trends which take ideas from high fashion and translate them into fast fashion dupes. I’m not here to tell you that fast fashion brands are ...
31st January 2023
Emily Webb discusses what this year’s top trends will be as the temperatures plummet. Each year as autumn resurfaces, I find it more burdensome to adjust to the ever-changing autumnal trends that creep around the corner from that first day of September. It’s difficult to know if leggings are out – are we still wearing ...
31st January 2023
Writer Lorelai Patnaik discusses the Tiktok dating concept known as ‘beige flags’. Beige Flags – Your everyday average run-of-the-mill boring profile on dating apps or early warning for red alarm bells. Readers, I think at this point, we can say a significant proportion of us have spent time just scrolling through dating apps. From Tinder, ...
31st January 2023
Writer Eleni Retsou discusses her opinions on cheating within a relationship. I am sure at this point, we are all aware of the various recent cheating scandals that seem to be plaguing Hollywood. Emily Ratajkowski’s husband cheated on her not once, but multiple times, Adam Levine cheated on his wife Behati Prinsloo and of course, ...
31st January 2023
Lucy Fitzgerald looks back on the popularity of Nando’s, and interrogates its enduring appeal. What with their predilection for profiting off inhumane worker labour conditions and propagating conversion therapy, I try not to get fond of multinational companies. Nando’s restaurant is no fast fashion behemoth or soulless tech giant, but it is still a homogenised ...
24th January 2023
Writer Yousef Alhumaidi discusses the festive experience in Kuwait. What does December mean to me? December is the last month of the year in which we spend a lot of time studying and working. For me, it’s the month in which I set plans and visions for a new year full of success. Here in ...
