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Swimming Upstream: David Hammons’ Revolutionary Art | Renee Bel-Momodu
Emerging as a key figure in the landscape of American art over the last fifty years, David Hammons’ heterogeneous practice has...
Dec 13, 20213 min read
The Sinister Revolution of Punk Rock | Irine Teneishvili
Influenced by the dissent against authorities voiced by psychedelic rock in the 1960s and characterised by Jim Morrison’s transcendent,...
Nov 22, 20214 min read
‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller
On Tuesday 16th November, Polly Creed gave a lecture on Art and Activism- Making Politically Engaged Theatre & Film. During the talk she...
Nov 18, 20212 min read
60s Body Art: A Cultural Fad or a Feminist Revolution? | Eve Scott
Emanating in the counterculture of the liberated 60s, the phenomenon of body art marked a dramatic upheaval of the portrayal of the self....
Nov 18, 20215 min read
Images Of Protest | Noe Ceasar
A photography series taken at environmental protests, as well as anti-parliamentary protests in honour of Guy Fawkes.
Nov 11, 20211 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 8, 20213 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...
Oct 4, 202010 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 30, 20203 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...
Sep 2, 20204 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...
May 2, 20202 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...
Apr 11, 20206 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...
Feb 10, 20205 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 27, 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 25, 20203 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 9, 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,...
Jan 8, 20204 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 10, 20191 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...
Dec 6, 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 29, 20194 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...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
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