top of page
Oct 8, 20213 min read
Comradery in the wake of Covid-19 | Elizabeth Abayomi
Comradery is an important life skill that can be defined as the bond that ties two or more parties together alongside self-sacrifice and...
Oct 4, 202010 min read
Four Waves of Southeast Asia: Forming the most diverse region in the world | Wei Htoo
Penned strikingly as the “Balkans of the Orient” by British historian C.A Fisher, Southeast Asia is probably the most diverse corner of...
Sep 30, 20203 min read
Minimum Wage and Lunch Runs: A Crash Course in Employment During Education | Elise Burke
Climbing the career ladder is all well and good, but how do you get onto it in the first place? Are chain stores the only places that...
Sep 2, 20204 min read
The Sublimity of Nature | Lucja Jedrzejczak
‘Deep pools, tall trees, black chasms, and dizzy crags, And tottering towers’ [Home at Grasmere II. 711-3] “Wordsworth’s real danger was...
May 2, 20202 min read
Can stripping the air of its moisture quench the world’s thirst? | Sara Xhelilaj
Materials chemist and data scientist Dr Chloe Coates’ lecture on “Order, disorder and ices: exploiting disorder in functional materials...
Apr 11, 20206 min read
COVID-19, The “Chinese Virus” | Wei Htoo
When a need to get the point across outweighs the safety of a group of people, on a national level… Since the first reported cases of...
Feb 10, 20205 min read
Behind the scenes: The UK’s £32bn Industry | Sara Xhelilaj
A retrospective insight into the theories of fashion, fashion life cycles and direction for consumers. Central to any definition of...
Jan 27, 20203 min read
“Fair” Journalism in the East | Wei Htoo
“Breaking down the costs of Trump’s trade war with China …”; “US reverses China ‘currency manipulator’ label …”; “China may be using sea...
Jan 24, 20203 min read
Musings on the Tube | Lotus Singh-Hall
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the moment you step on the tube in London, you enter another world. A world where manners do...
Jan 9, 20204 min read
The Dreaded Cure to Cancer. |Rama Aowidah.
A revolutionary new shift in cancer research, dubbed ‘potentially paradigm changing’ has occurred with the first FDA approved gene...
Jan 8, 20204 min read
Is your 2020 resolution to read more? |Rhiana Thomas.
Is your 2020 resolution to read more? Perhaps that has always been your New Years resolution. I know it has often been mine. I’ve even,...
Dec 10, 20191 min read
Looking back on Carols at St Margaret’s | Rhiana Thomas
Last Monday guests flocked to st Margarets church for an evening of Christmas cheer. I was in the choir, right in the midst of the action...
Dec 6, 20194 min read
Why People Love Football | Joseph McDonnell
I used to despise football. To those who know me, that will be a shock, but it’s true. Until the age of about 11, I was a proud advocate...
Nov 29, 20194 min read
Prisoners – The New Slaves | Rama Aowidah
The only way we have made improvements to our previous society is by questioning the moral obliquity present in certain aspects of our...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’ by Max Porter. A review of one of the decade’s most i
Told through chaotic and unconventional prose, ‘Grief is the Thing with feathers’ explores grief felt after the loss of a loved one and...
Sep 13, 20192 min read
Producing Medicines From Nature | Aatqa Arham
The natural world has provided a cornucopia of pharmaceutical phenomena. From the earliest moments in recorded history, plants and herbs...
Sep 6, 20192 min read
Microplastic fibers: from what we wear – to what we eat | Vanesa Dimitrova
Most self-conscious consumers will recognise the word ‘polyester’ onto the tags of their clothing. Yet, does the most of our population...
May 23, 20191 min read
A Strange Link Between Alzheimers and Gum Disease | Malaika Wasim
Alzheimer’s and Gum Disease? Being one of the major causes of death worldwide, the cause of Alzheimer’s is still unknown. The condition...
May 20, 20192 min read
The Unknown Famine Crime In Yemen | Alaa El-Hannach
Very little mainstream media has given any attention to the famine currently happening in Yemen and the devastating effects it has had on...
May 14, 20192 min read
Creativity and Mental Health | Vesta Latvyte
As well-being week has passed, I’ve been thinking more about the power of language (and other forms of art) and the way it is used....
bottom of page