You’ve been thinking that it had been a painfully long time since you’d put pen to paper, finger to keys, thoughts to words. You’ve been thinking it on and off for a few months actually, not that it had prompted any action so far. You’ve been thinking that what you have written recently has all…
Creative Writing
LONELINESS IS A FUCKING DRUG
Loneliness is a fucking drug. Once you first taste loneliness, It is as addictive, As hard to quit As the hardest drug I know. The hardest drug I know Is cocodomol. Cocodomol became my friend When at 13 I hurt my hip And I needed a full night’s sleep, When at 15 I first felt…
Film
The Man Who Fell to Earth… rather intentionally
The Man Who Fell to Earth poses one of the most terrifying thoughts: despite being one of the most advanced species, having fixed things from cancer to clean power, you can’t stop your planet from dying. It’s up there with immortality, which in some sense is the same thing. The Man Who Fell to Earth…
Creative Writing
Discovery
Every day is a revelation. Even though the fantastical illusion of youth has been overshadowed by dreary routine, there is still wonder woven into the fabric of life. Day by day, we roll on like sand dunes on the horizon of a lonely desert — waiting for something to captivate us, like everything seemed to…
Features
Millenials are snowflakes
Most freshers this year will have been born in the year 2000: complete and utter millennials. Yet this seemingly harmless, edgy label has often been synonymous with being perceived as “snowflakes” – for being too thin-skinned and taking offence over everything. But does this have an element of truth, or is this really just another…
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University talks should embrace controversy, rather than censuring it
In February 2013, the deputy ambassador of Israel was invited to the University of Essex to give a political science talk; anti-Israel protestors attempted to storm the venue, and the talk was cancelled for security reasons. Then, in November 2014, a society at the University of Oxford organised a debate entitled ‘This house believes Britain’s…
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