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Dec 7, 20223 min read

A Response to Sontag's 'America, seen darkly, through photographs' | Uma Loxley

Many different American photographers' subject matter focuses on an idea of ‘Americanness’. However, some subvert this notion by focusing...

Dec 7, 20224 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

Addiction and Masculinity | Uma Loxley

From the day that they are born, boys are expected to uphold the ideals that society deems important in a successful man. They should be...

Nov 20, 20225 min read

The Tothill Review

The Unavoidable Walk | Melodi Dogru

He began climbing the steps of the escalator. There seemed to be so many at first, but he took his time with them. The upside was that...

Prayer of Absolution | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma

Nov 20, 20224 min read

The Tothill Review

Prayer of Absolution | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma

I wish I could write, but the obscenity of that deed forbids me to do so. My inexperience, weakened by my distaste for condolences, puts...

Story Behind The Click - V-J Day In Times Square | Wassim Difallah

Nov 20, 20222 min read

Photography

Story Behind The Click - V-J Day In Times Square | Wassim Difallah

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995) was a German-Born (actually born in Poland but raised in Germany) American photographer and...

The Protein-Folding problem: the 60-year head-scratcher with a deterministic solution | Linh Nguyen

Nov 20, 20225 min read

Science and Technology

The Protein-Folding problem: the 60-year head-scratcher with a deterministic solution | Linh Nguyen

“We’ve discovered more about the world than any civilisation before us. But we have been stuck on one problem: how do proteins fold up?”...

Nov 17, 20225 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

From Lascars to leaders | Esha Amin

From Lascars to leaders: a brief historic and geographic insight on how Britain’s largest minority came to be A person of colour and a...

Realism, Liberalism and the Ukraine War | Fela Callahan

Nov 17, 20224 min read

Politics

Realism, Liberalism and the Ukraine War | Fela Callahan

The Russo-Ukrainian War has fanned the flames in a discourse that has occurred since the beginning of the study of history itself. This...

Do Legal Positivism and Tyranny Go Hand in Hand? | Leo Waterhouse

Nov 15, 20227 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Do Legal Positivism and Tyranny Go Hand in Hand? | Leo Waterhouse

John Austin’s blueprint of legal positivism, contains what is perhaps the most influential premise in legal philosophy. ‘The existence of...

Nov 6, 20221 min read

The Tothill Review

The Underground | Zoe Fernandes-Beepat

the overground may be fine everything’s functioning life keeps going time’s still changing the overground may be fine but what about the...

Thoughts on The National Opera's Tosca | Luna Hills

Nov 6, 20222 min read

Arts and Literature

Thoughts on The National Opera's Tosca | Luna Hills

Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ tells the tragic story of opera singer Floria Tosca, who fights to save her lover, the lone artist Cavaradossi, from...

Do we need a constitutional monarchy? Thailand's perspective | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma

Nov 6, 20224 min read

Politics

Do we need a constitutional monarchy? Thailand's perspective | Yolanda Trujillo Rodriguez De Ledesma

On the 24th of June 1932, a coup d'état transformed Siam’s absolute monarchy to a constitutional one. Seven years later, Siam became...

Estranged to your City | Oliwia Kamienieka

Oct 3, 20224 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

Estranged to your City | Oliwia Kamienieka

M Y T A K E O N F I N D I N G Y O U R S E L F I N L O N D O N I heave a sigh of triumph as I step onto the firm platform, my body...

What is a portrait?-Looking at Donald Rodney's 'A Land of Milk and Honey II' | Aliya Mueller-Koegler

Oct 2, 20223 min read

Arts and Literature

What is a portrait?-Looking at Donald Rodney's 'A Land of Milk and Honey II' | Aliya Mueller-Koegler

What exactly makes an artwork a portrait? The Tate defines it as ‘a representation of a particular person’, whereas the Merriam Webster...

Sitting down with Sir David Evennet | Callum McGee

Sep 1, 20224 min read

Politics

Sitting down with Sir David Evennet | Callum McGee

In December 2021, I was fortunate enough to meet and interview Sir David Evennett, MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford. A conservative, he...

‘As seen on Police Five’: Hoffman’s Whitechapel | Mia Spiller

May 8, 20222 min read

Photography

‘As seen on Police Five’: Hoffman’s Whitechapel | Mia Spiller

Knick knacks and assorted objects lined the streets of Whitechapel’s bustling markets as documentary photographer David Hoffman walked...

May 8, 202219 min read

The Tothill Review

Porcelain | Harland Cossons

« Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog, meaning Death Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird, meaning Death Those who sit...

Chileans bidding farewell to Neoliberalism show there is hope for us all | Tom Rosas

Mar 23, 20227 min read

Politics

Chileans bidding farewell to Neoliberalism show there is hope for us all | Tom Rosas

On the 20th of December last year Christmas seemed to arrive early for leftists in Latin America and across the World. Chile – who 50...

Mar 23, 20224 min read

Politics

Social Media and its Threat to Politics | Addison Mitchell

My auntie’s mother Daphne is a typical retiree who has lived a comfortable life and has now settled down in Thanet. Daphne and her...

Mar 16, 20222 min read

Politics

Biden’s First Year | Harland Cossons

The Economist wrote of late that presidents are set up to fail. In response to misleading media coverage and congressional gridlock, many...

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