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May 7, 20246 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 6, 20244 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 27, 20243 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 23, 20243 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 22, 20241 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 20, 20241 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 19, 20243 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 12, 20244 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 1, 20244 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 28, 20242 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 27, 20246 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 5, 20243 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...
Feb 5, 20242 min read
Power in The Tongue | Chadae Labeach
Her eyes were a love letter. Their sweet chocolate encapsulated everything that I loved about her. That passion that somehow never...
Jan 23, 20244 min read
Is This Finally Labour’s Year? The Party’s Chances of Winning in 2024 | Troy Francis-Brown
The Labour party are infamously good at losing elections. Indeed, the party has failed to win a single election in my lifetime so far,...
Jan 22, 20243 min read
Are you as bad with money as Carrie Bradshaw? | Adele Lepinay
No one wants to be compared to the one and only Carrie Bradshaw when it comes to money, however I think that sometimes you and I have...
Jan 22, 20242 min read
Zodiac Mythos: Comforting Fiction or Psychological Fact? | Adele Lepinay
My first interaction with horoscopes was when I was in secondary school and completely bored in music class. I found out about my rising...
Jan 22, 20245 min read
London is becoming more anti-car: That’s a Good Thing | Kaveh Kordestani
In the past few months, a four-letter acronym has swung local elections, changed national policy, and re-ignited a topic of contentious...
Jan 22, 20243 min read
Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla": All Style, No Substance | Cleo Bador
Daughter of perhaps one of the most acclaimed directors of all time, Sofia Coppola’s journey into the industry has been somewhat easier...
Jan 22, 20245 min read
Literary Intertextuality in Emerald Fennel’s Saltburn | Chloe Joyce
Emerald Fennel's unhinged class thriller 2023 film Saltburn, follows scholarship student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who befriends the...
Jan 22, 20241 min read
In the Eyes of a Beholder | Sophia Verai
I'd draw him if I knew how - Trace the line of his back and his brow Touch him lightly with a pencil Frame him by a windowsill...
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