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...
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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...
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...
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...
May 163 min read
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
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...
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...
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...
May 64 min read
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...
Apr 233 min read
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...
Mar 193 min read
The 13th Amendment: Rebranding Slavery | Safiye Misirlioglu
The Rule of Law is the most powerful tool in shaping people’s actions, regardless of whether these laws factor in the people that they...
Mar 124 min read
The Vessel | Danny Andrews
It’s been thirty days since the attack. I have not left the reactor core since then, but every morning I awake to the thrumming of...
Mar 14 min read
Dealing with PMS: A Majority-of-Women Phenomenon | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma
Editor's Note: This article discusses themes of negative mental health including suicide. Reader discretion is advised. Please see some...
Feb 282 min read
The Idea Behind Neuralink | Naina Surana
Elon Musk and his company Neuralink have been under the spotlight recently for implanting the first chip in a human brain. They have an...
Feb 276 min read
How Do You Spend the Last Morning of Your Life? | Danny Andrews
Dawn rose slowly that morning. The violet Sun shone across the desert, the sands shining bright with the purple light of a dying star....
Feb 53 min read
Should we all just go to the cinema? | Adele Lepinay
After Mr Whitefield’s captivating discourse last week, I started thinking about what my favourite first date would look like. And quite...
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