by Chloe Fitzgerald Skin problems affect everyone, as much as we all hate them. There is no clearer reflection of this than the fact that there are millions of people giving skincare advice out there, […]
Germany’s Floods: a crisis within a crisis within a crisis
By Hanna Vogt, in collaboration with Rehabilitating Earth. Whilst our day to day lives during the pandemic are still not what they used to be, Germany was shocked in mid-July by record breaking flooding. Resulting […]
Products or people? Who should we be thanking for our ‘holy grails’?
By Melody Triumph We shouldn’t have to lose our independence and abandon our principles, just to maintain and beautify our bodies. What is the cosmetics industry To really explore our relationships with cosmetic products and […]
Shame on Me – The Book Missing from the BLM Reading List
By Georgia McInnes “I understood, without being able to articulate it, that language had a power to change me completely with the utterance of one word”. The anti-protest bill may have limited our freedom, but […]
Why forever chemicals aren’t going away
By Jennifer Sizeland In 1998, a U.S. lawyer called Robert Bilott discovered a truly shocking secret while investigating a lawsuit in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He was representing a farmer called Earl Tennant whose cattle were […]
If romeo and juliet met through tinder, there would be no story
By Marina Mestres Tinder, bumble, hinge, grindr … dating apps flood our phones, but what about our hearts? In a world where we have forgotten what human interaction feels like, online dating has become a […]
Conspirasea
By Ruby Edgeley Mankind has been caught.Sunk,Swarming inside the net cast around the world and over our eyes,As the underwater war concedes.Blinded and baited by the image of a little red boat chugging along,Manned by […]
Line of Duty and fictionalised realities
by Eleanor Taylor The controversial Line of Duty finale kick-started a conversation about fiction’s duty to reflect reality. Was this storyline the right move or did it end up just disappointing the show’s fans? On […]
The myth of pandemic productivity
The year is 1665. Isaac Newton has been sent home from Cambridge University following an outbreak of the Great Plague. Just another university student in his early 20s, Newton is confined to a year-long isolation. […]
How running helped reclaim my body from anxiety – 20 minutes at a time
When I am running, I am body and breath and thumping footsteps, and when I finish my lap of the woods, I feel capable. This is my love letter to running, an activity that quite […]