A new report from UN Women shows that COVID-19 has widened the gap between male and female unpaid domestic labour. As positive news about the Pfizer vaccine circulates and the UK looks set to move out of COVID-19’s dark shadow at long last, we cannot let the Coronavirus reduce some of the strides women have […]Read More
This year has been challenging in many ways for people in every walk of life. It’s been a busy news year to say the least: a global pandemic, a global movement to combat racial inequalities, lockdown after lockdown, an ongoing climate crisis, a US election – you name it, it’s happened. The stress of it […]Read More
On Tuesday 10th November, Maggi Hambling’s statue celebrating proto-feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft was revealed. Wollstonecraft’s eighteenth century book A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women, is hailed as one of the first feminist texts. In the book, one of Wollstonecraft’s lead arguments is that “taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind […]Read More
When news broke that Wales were cancelling exams for GCSE and A-Level pupils I was ecstatic. As a tutor who helps mainly GCSE English pupils, I know how stressful the pandemic has been for these students. After the government’s mishandling of the results system last summer, many of my pupils have been left feeling anxious […]Read More
‘Oh, the virus is spreading because of the students, it’s all their fault’. It’s all well and good putting the blame on students and slandering their actions, but has anyone actually stopped to think about how it feels to be one of these ‘hooligans’ during this pandemic? We’re nearing the end of 2020, and it […]Read More
Suffering a decade out of power and in dire straits, the Labour party has recently adopted an innovative new electoral strategy. It is a party characterised by division; the boundaries between factions are marked by scars. What it has elected to do, then, is plug its fingers very firmly and deeply into those scars, tearing […]Read More
One quick Google search of ‘Is Democracy in Crisis?’ will give you exactly 243 million hits. Whilst I have neither the time nor the inclination to sift through even a fraction of the news articles, essays and academic publications, a skim down the first few pages suggests that the general consensus, to one degree or […]Read More
Despite the incumbent president’s recent loss, Trumpism looks set to continue to dominate the republican party. However, as the President increasingly turns his vicious hyperbole towards the USA’s democratic institutions and structures he risks pushing the party further away from his ideals. Over the last five years Donald Trump has coerced, seduced and smashed the […]Read More
Students were sent back to university in Autumn term with nothing but uncertainty on how this academic year would unfold. With teaching being conducted predominantly online, our university experience has been vastly different to the one we expected. Being confined to cramped university accommodation and spending most of our days in our bedrooms is detrimental […]Read More
Bookshop launched in the UK on Monday 2 November, taking the media by storm. Promising a way for customers to easily and conveniently buy books online whilst supporting independent bookshops, it seems like a dream come true to many readers and those of us trying to shop more ethically. Best of all, the platform is […]Read More
Recently, I got into a heated debate with an Italian man who believed that sexism in the West no longer exists. He was adamant that gender inequality is a thing of the past, a societal problem now only existent in countries far from our little Western bubble. He used the Middle East as an example of where […]Read More
After U.S. President Donald Trump departs the White House, Trumpism is staying putRead More
As kids, our parents told us that we had to be grateful for the freedoms and liberties we so regularly took for granted in the United Kingdom. We counted ourselves lucky that we had food on the table, a roof over our heads, and access to clean water like many other children around the world […]Read More
Dave Chappelle is hosting Saturday Night Live this week. This is not a usual Saturday night, though; it’s the first weekend after the 2020 US elections. It feels like a weird flashback to November 2016: the anxiety of not knowing who’s going to win, the long wait, and Dave Chappelle hosting SNL. Yes, because Chappelle debuted […]Read More
Germany needs to get climate neutral in just 15 years to help keep the global average temperature under the 1.5°C mark. Sounds impossible, right? The country has currently set for itself the goal of cutting down its greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by 2050, which is a difficult task in itself. So, how should […]Read More
