Students struggle with procrastination. In an ever more digitised age, the task of avoiding distraction seems ever more challenging. But still possible. According to best practice, the fightback includes reducing one’s digital exposure, or going on a leisurely stroll to clear the mind of academic jargon. Students are taught to believe that hard work always…
Creative Writing
Holiday
Imagine sipping a piña colada on a beach in Barbados. Where a wind kisses your cheeks, whispering through the language of the palm trees. Your lips purse as you sip its imaginary juices. It feels tangy. Fresh. Everything this moment lacked. Now, a murky cloud begins to form in the shape of a camel, its…
Interview
Black British Business Person Of the Year, Segun Osuntokun: “ Fix the system, not the people”
Segun Osuntokun has an impressive collection of books. Last month, the managing partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner was named the Black British Business Person of the Year. Meeting virtually, he smiles before pushing himself forward on a spin chair. “As a corporate solicitor, I don’t regard myself as a business person, so to be…
Creative Writing
My Brew Today
If all myself and every side could brew like coffee in a cup on a dry dreary death bent silent room then mine brews over there where spillages show teardrops of Monday, fading yet true. The wind, a choice, glides in strides of striking size where smoke and steam are friends, a sight where smells…
Creative Writing
The Final Twist
arriving soon. It bends before, narrows near ends, dreams suspend from rooftops where sparrows gleam as nature’s friends. there, it broods, alludes to dreams where paths are drawn as alleyways, arrow straight and stiff as arms that flail. Exhale. feel air where lanes bend and narrow near ends, the time to make amends.
Creative Writing
Tell Your Therapist This
so it’s that time again: weeknight kale in wok pan, low level heat, the norm. playlist shuffles. plays unknown artist, this gorgeous rendition in corner of each iris. paints picture of storm from a palette inviting sensations, creating palpitations in heart overloading. it’s a brush- stroke on my chin hairs, where they once stood. I…
Travel
Luxury versus budget travel
Newsflash: Once upon a time, travelling for pleasure was something people actually did. As we reminisce during a pandemic, our holiday plans have either been totally destroyed or at least, delayed. I refuse to beat around the bush. Covid-19 has seismically affected travel providers. Not only are travellers spending less on exotic getaways to faraway…
Uncategorized
How to stay connected to university during lockdown
The impact of Covid-19 on our lives has been epic. The increasingly consequential lack of social interactions – key to developing and moulding change – has become ever more apparent in the age of limited socialising as a result of enforced restrictions. Whilst university education remains possible, campus life has changed immeasurably since the pandemic…
Film, Venue
#NotAWitch: The Witches and Disability
We all suffer from the odd moment of mind boggling brainlessness. Warner Bros just had theirs after releasing “The Witches”, an adaptation of the 1983 novel by British writer Roald Dahl. The main issue relates to director Robert Zemeckis’s seeming ignorance towards the very concept of disability, unequivocally blurring the line between physical impairment and…
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