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The Closure of the Barron: A Lament
The Barron Theatre, nestled just off North Street, is St Andrews’s black-box venue and one of only three entirely student-run theatres in the UK. As well as being home to the Mermaids (The University of St Andrews Performing Arts Fund), whose team of volunteers manage and care for the theatre, it facilitates countless other societies […]
Check Out Your Local Charity Shops
As climate change increases and we put more pressure on the earth’s natural resources we must look towards a sustainable future. Charity shops are a great way of being environmentally friendly, spending time browsing, and saving money. You can donate almost anything. All the clothes are steamed and if someone tries something on then that […]
A Gentle Reminder That You Don’t Have To Lose Weight This January
Welcome. You’ve made it to January 2021. It’s the new year. I wouldn’t go as far to say all is right with the world, actually that would be a complete lie. However, there is a sense of newness that comes with every month of January, despite if that newness is felt within the confines of […]
Why Students Don’t Need to Worry About What’s in the Vaccine
I’d like to think that anyone attending university is educated enough to not be an anti-vaxxer, but nothing really surprises me anymore these days. It genuinely pains me to see how many people around my age have posted on social media about how they will flat-out refuse to take the vaccine once it is available […]
Social Media Is Harmful. Why Can’t We Give It Up?
Social media is harmful. Why can’t we give it up? Either, we believe that its positives as a ‘social tool’ outweigh the negatives and justify its use. Or, we are ‘in too deep’, too addicted and reliant on social media to delete it or even acknowledge an issue. Assuming you came here from Facebook, I […]
Astrology: Meaningless or Meaningful?
The zodiac was created by ancient Babylonians by dividing the sky into twelve sections, which were named after the largest constellation that was present in their section. This calendar tracked time and prediction by observing the planets’ movements, which happened to correspond with events on earth, both positive and negative. The Romans then adopted the […]
Should Football Be Continuing?
This conversation between George Watts and Joel Butcher featured on Two’s Kompany, the Sunday 4pm STAR show, and was adapted by Joel. Tune in to hear more like it! Back to Microsoft Teams calls. In the last 12 months, life has made tortoises of all of us. Permanently attached to our homes, being stowed away […]
2020: A Chaotic Review
So 2020 happened; I honestly had to do a decent amount of research for this article, considering the amount of random stuff that happened that barely had me bat an eye. It all began on December 31st, 2019, we all raised glasses to a year of “2020 vision”, Halloween on a Saturday, Christmas on a […]
Folklore & Evermore – Taylor Swift’s 2020
Although some people might not want to think back to the time-stop that was Summer 2020, I want to quickly mention July. Funnily enough I wasn’t doing much of significance, maybe planning yet another Zoom call or reluctantly helping my sister bake. I do remember, however, where I was when Taylor Swift revealed she was […]
Buy-Buy Oppression – Stop Supporting the Oppression of Others this Holiday Season
Buying ethically, for most of us, should not be a bonus or an add-on. It should just be how we shop. With Christmas, Boxing Day sales, and January sales, this tends to be a time of excess consumption for most of us. Particularly this year, with so many of us unable to gift experiences or […]
A Guide To Scottish Culture
When you think of Scotland, what comes to mind? Caledonia is associated with purple heather, friendly locals, old kirks, and men in kilts (who are hopefully wearing underwear). Kelpies swim in deep lakes, thistles poke their heads out of the soft green countryside and the bagpipes are played very loudly. Scotland is an interesting place […]
On Hope, Love and Revolution
Content Warning: Mentions of current events (police brutality and discriminatory laws in the US and India). To say that this year was brutal would be an understatement, but to also blame this year for everything that happened would be false. We’ve been through a lot this year and I won’t go into detail about that, […]
Diego Maradona – In Memoriam
I’ve always believed it difficult for a young Singaporean to reconcile the excesses and geniuses of Diego Maradona. Now I know that we’ve got four ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cups, but we have never made it quite so far continentally (much less globally) as to suffer the honour of a Hand of God. Going just […]
Cancel Culture: Are We Losing the Right to Free Speech?
You can’t say anything these days. From Fessdrews to national news, it’s a popular opinion that political correctness has gone too far, hindering our ability to have productive political and social dialogue with one another. Everyone is shouting about the danger of ‘wokeness’ stopping anybody from saying anything, a view that seems to have gained […]
Thankful During COVID
Thanksgiving feels weird to me this year… I know it’s an American holiday, but I think most of us from the U.S have gotten away from praising Christopher Colombus and his “breaking bread” with Wampanoag people. Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday, probably because it’s just a day to eat as much food as you can […]
Why ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Is A Perfect Film
For those who don’t know me personally, one of the things I truly love in life is the hit film The Devil Wears Prada. As I’ve been becoming increasingly stressed about upcoming deadlines, I find myself thinking about how perfect it is more than I’d care to admit. This film debuted in 2006 and is based off […]
The Power of Vitamins
Vitamins: from when we are little kids, we are all told about the importance of them. Your parents might have done this by forcing you to eat your vegetables or by giving you the little gummies that you could only have one of a day, even though you thought they were candy and wanted them […]
A Glossary For Polyamory
Sometimes, approaching polyamory can feel like entering a whole new culture, replete with traditions (board-games enthusiasts and polyamorous people are a strange and singular venn-diagram) and a funky new language. It can feel isolating with people casually throwing around terms like ‘compersion’, ‘polysaturation’ and ‘metamour’, and I sometimes worry that this is the sort of […]