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 […]
The Banhammer has spoken: More must be done to curb the influence of Trump and his associates than denying access to social media
By William Leah While Donald Trump and many of his allies have been banned from major social media sites, their influence still lingers on these platforms and across the internet. Following the US Capitol Insurrection […]
Empowering Artists: Rascal Miles
Welcome back to our second instalment of our empowering artists series – here to shine a light on talented artists who deserve some recognition. I had the pleasure of interviewing Rascal Miles, an indie folk […]
Caliphate of the Caribbean: The story of Trinidad’s ISIS recruits
By William Leah The stories and demographics of ISIS recruits from a Caribbean Island shed light on the variety of people who travelled to Syria to establish an Islamic State. When Europeans think of those […]
The Gut Microbiome: Your Second Brain
The human microbiota within our gut makes up 1-2kg of our body’s total weight, equivalent to roughly the weight of our brain. Many consider our gut microbiota as an organ in its own right due […]
Was the pandemic the final kick to the concept of “hedonistic youth”?
By Hannah Kettles Probably, but self-destruction has an expiry date. Being part of a generation that has been forced to experience a bout of old age long before our time has helped me abandon the […]
‘Glowing up’ on screen: Are coming-of-age makeover scenes always problematic?
By Maria Atter Grease, Clueless, Mean Girls, The Princess Diaries, The Breakfast Club. What do all these films have in common, besides being coming-of-age classics? They all feature a makeover scene, where a (straight, white) […]
Why do crime documentaries always blame women?
By Jasmine Waters After three rounds of lockdown, the scripted arc of our favourite crime documentaries leaves women vulnerable to dehumanisation for the sake of sensationalist drama in an entirely new way. In the same […]
4M: The fight for the ideology of Madrid
By Florine Lips Another round of elections in Spain, this time in the region of Madrid – but what could the outcome mean for the national government? And what does it say about the polarisation […]