20th December 2022
Can weaponised incompetence apply to flatmates too? Do your flatmates like to play Jenga with the recycling? Perhaps they pretend to ignore that the tinned tomatoes they failed to rinse out properly are sprouting a lovely garden of mould in the kitchen. Or maybe they just didn’t clean up after a house party. It’s not ...
20th December 2022
Becca Luke shares her experiences with antidepressants, and discusses the stigma that still surrounds them. Antidepressants saved my life. Whilst I find myself joking about my “dependency” on a box of happy little pills and I acknowledge that by no means were they a miracle, overnight, magic pill, Mirtazapine gave me my life back. When ...
20th December 2022
Views editor Alisha Vaswani discusses her experience with food guilt. Content Warning: Mention of disordered eating September 25 2022 (according to my UberEats order history), I spent most of the night intermittently working through a strange type of shame. It’s one I’ve experienced so often that it’s come to feel commonplace – but I always ...
17th October 2022
Writer Rhys Delany gives hangover advice based on experience. Alcohol is almost always present in times of celebration, or commiseration, and so understanding how to navigate the realms of the morning after can feel like a vital component of human life. It is not, of course, but should you choose to partake it is helpful ...
17th October 2022
Researching the history of the pumpkin spice latte, Georgia McHaffie uncovers its quirky origins and gives it a try for the first time. Starting from its popularity as a Starbucks flavour, the words ‘pumpkin spice’ have become synonymous with all things woolly jumpers, falling leaves, and colder days. Earlier and earlier each year we see ...
17th October 2022
Hailie encourages us to embrace reality in this brief exploration of radical acceptance. It’s been increasingly hard not to go all doomsday on things when it feels as though we’re permanently in crisis mode. Be it the chaos surrounding the cost-of-living, the continual demise of the climate, or the pressure to unpack the two-hundred-and-twenty-two easter ...
17th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing argues that boundaries in relationships help them to thrive. As an annoying 14-year-old (and net burden on society) I used to declare ad nauseum that “sharing is caring”. I have since dissociated from being that person, such is the perpetual reinvention-of-the-self necessitated by late-teen development, and the phrase now appears, to ...
16th October 2022
Lucy delivers “a silly little ode to milk”, reflecting on her enduring passion for skimmed cow’s milk. There’s a point you reach in any relationship, where you need to disclose a personal truth, one you have long-fiercely protected; whether that be out of shame, self-preservation or a still-loading vibe-check-reading of the other party. You just ...
18th September 2022
Who needs good jeans when you’ve got good genes? What makes the ideal model? Long legs? A pretty face? Famous parents? Recently the latter has seemingly become one of the most important criteria for getting your face onto the cover of Vogue. Indeed, many of the top models of this generation have famous parents: Kaia ...
18th September 2022
Flower power, funky furs, and flamboyant flares – maximalism is back. Within the fashion world exists a pendulum. Every few decades or so this pendulum swings from one side to the other from “less is more” to “more is more,” and vice versa. The push and pull of minimalism and maximalism has often been a ...
