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

[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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Editor's Note: This article discusses themes of negative mental health including suicide. Reader discretion is advised. Please see some...

Elon Musk and his company Neuralink have been under the spotlight recently for implanting the first chip in a human brain. They have an...

Dawn rose slowly that morning. The violet Sun shone across the desert, the sands shining bright with the purple light of a dying star....

After Mr Whitefield’s captivating discourse last week, I started thinking about what my favourite first date would look like. And quite...

Her eyes were a love letter. Their sweet chocolate encapsulated everything that I loved about her. That passion that somehow never...

The Labour party are infamously good at losing elections. Indeed, the party has failed to win a single election in my lifetime so far,...