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Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 2) | Danny Andrews

Click here to read Part 1 Subnautica and Solitude: The Degasi Both of the two main sub-plots of Subnautica also play an important role in...

May 315 min read

Sixth Forms' Red Ink | Kaveh Kordestani

How Harris Westminster runs behind the scenes is not something most students think about. But whilst you are sitting through your...

May 293 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

The Art of Moving On | Adèle Lepinay

We are all slowly starting to enter early adulthood which will be a new, interesting period in all our lives. It’s the time you start...

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 1) | Danny Andrews

May 284 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 1) | Danny Andrews

This is the first article in an exciting series that explores a video game's mechanics, themes and effect, in the same manner any other...

May 251 min read

Surface | Douceur

Gliding softly on the surface of things And not really letting anyone in Diving deep into a web of blue dreams With only brightness for...

May 225 min read

Untold Stories | Isabelle Perry-Wade

It is a known fact that the study of history is largely the study of men. Notable exceptions aside – Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Boudicca to...

Pomegranate: The Story of Persephone Retold | Chadae Labeach

May 194 min read

Pomegranate: The Story of Persephone Retold | Chadae Labeach

[content warning: references to abuse] I ran. I ran until my feet bled and my vision blurred. I ran from my mother's home where love was...

The Role of Renfield in 'Dracula' | Sophia Verai

May 183 min read

The Role of Renfield in 'Dracula' | Sophia Verai

Dracula as a novel betrays a complex relationship with the Victorian conception of insanity and mental illness. It follows, then, that...

The Artificial Womb: Almost Hard to Conceive | Eugene Lorpaisansin

May 163 min read

Science and Technology

The Artificial Womb: Almost Hard to Conceive | Eugene Lorpaisansin

According to the WHO, the last recorded rate of premature births in 2020 across countries ranged from 4-16%. That's approximately 13.4...

May 134 min read

Politics

The Politics of Today: Do the Generation of Tomorrow Want it? | Zeinab Sabri

The next generation of voters are the youth of today, yet they are being ignored by politicians. Politics has become a foreign sport to...

The Old Mossy Staircase | Jack Morhen-Romero

May 122 min read

The Old Mossy Staircase | Jack Morhen-Romero

2nd place for Prose category in the school creative writing competition in October 2023 The old mossy staircase was a relic of forgotten...

Women in Revolt! - Art for More Than ‘Art’s Sake’ | Nour Ghannam

May 76 min read

Women in Revolt! - Art for More Than ‘Art’s Sake’ | Nour Ghannam

How does art shape the political? Is it really true that art is ‘for art’s sake’? The way in which art and artists engage with the...

Citizen Assemblies: Future of Democracy? | Troy Francis-Brown

May 64 min read

Politics

Citizen Assemblies: Future of Democracy? | Troy Francis-Brown

On Halloween last year, my school was lucky enough to have former Lib Dem MP Tom Brake visit us to give a lecture on the work of the...

Apr 273 min read

The 100 Year Flood | Kaveh Kordestani

Flooding and London are not usually two words that go together. With the exception of some brief, occasional flash floods, the capital...

Is 'Mean Girls' Relatable? | Adèle Lepinay

Apr 233 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

Is 'Mean Girls' Relatable? | Adèle Lepinay

I was recently listening to the Mean Girls theme song 'Built This Way' (as one does naturally) and I began to think about how the...

Apr 221 min read

Defining Love | Douceur

Ambitious task, isn't it? I don't presume to have the answer. If anything I have the question. What is that thing that happens when I...

Apr 201 min read

Tangents Meet | Sophia Verai

(written with the narrative voices of 'The Gun' by Vicki Weaver and 'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass' by Simon Armitage in mind) A...

The 13th Amendment: Rebranding Slavery | Safiye Misirlioglu

Mar 193 min read