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The Importance Of The Arts During A Global Pandemic
The arts and science are equally important, yet they have always been valued against each other. How many times have we been asked “are you a more science or humanities based?”. It’s all one or the other unless you’re an all-rounder. How many people do you know who are studying both maths and english? Science is incredibly […]
Top Ten Musicals You Should Watch
Since about the age of fourteen, I’ve been into musicals. I’ve been a singer since I was eight, and the logical next step seemed to be auditioning for a school musical at fourteen – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – which I both got a main role in (Olive Ostrovsky) and broke my […]
Let’s Talk About Feminism
When a woman says they are a feminist, they have to preface it with “I don’t think women are better than men and I don’t hate men”. In this day and age, feminism is unjustly connoted as a radical movement. The initial wave of feminism in the early ninetieth century emerged to fight the oppression […]
Corona-Fuelled Despair, Everywhere I Look Around
In 2017, I had something of a mental breakdown. I could not afford to go travelling after finishing my A Levels, so it seemed like the next best thing. The term ‘breakdown’ implies something of a spectacle in the context of mental health, but in reality, mine was neither dramatic nor sudden. It was not […]
What To Do With Donald Trump In November
As a Scot looking in, I would like to think I have a good read on America. I’ve visited the country, take more than a passing interest in their current affairs and study alongside literally thousands of them. My thoughts on America is that it is equally, if not more, mental than any other country. My hypothesis was […]
Starlings in Quarantine: Maya Zealey
Over the past week my phone has been filled with people’s lives going back to normal. It’s all freshly dyed hair, dinner and drinks, and spontaneous holidays. I scroll and see nothing but smiles, faces relieved that this period of boredom and monotony seems to be drawing to a close. Quarantine gave me no choice […]
Jeff Bezos Made $13 Billion in a Day, and Times Readers are Loving It
Yes, I read The Times. No, I don’t own a Barbour jacket. But occasionally I like to peer into the minds of those who certainly do, and in such moments, I turn to The Times’ comments pages. Today, dear reader, I invite you along with me, as together we hear the arguments in favour of […]
Theatres and Coronavirus: The Final Curtain Call for the UK’s Arts Industry
Earlier this month the government announced a £1.57bn support package aiming to “protect Britain’s world-class cultural, arts and heritage institutions” after weeks of lobbying from industry leaders. The support package from the government includes: A £1.15bn support pot for cultural organisations in England delivered through a mix of grants and loans. This will be made up […]
Learning A Language In Lockdown
Maybe it’s counterintuitive to suggest that now, when the rest of the world seems more off-limits than ever, is the perfect time to start learning another language. With all that’s going on, it probably seems like the least appropriate way to spend your time. But if you’re still searching for something to do this summer, […]
Jonathan Franzen’s Purity is Pretty Bad
Like a lot of people, I realised pretty early on that one of the potential upsides of lockdown was the opportunity to spend more time reading. There’s always the question of what to read, though. For some reason, I decided that I was feeling like a Big American Novel, and so I turned to an […]