Until relatively recently, a lot of people thought Madagascar was just an animated family-friendly film. In actual fact, the 4th largest island in the world is host to 15,000 endemic species, many of which are on the endangered species list as a result of climate change and anthropogenic activities. Madagascar is a developing country with […]Read More
Gabby Heneghan, 26, and Calum Henderson, 28, live with two-year-old cockapoo Bilston on their recently renovated houseboat, and are currently moored in London’s Little Venice during lockdown. Gabby is from Carlisle, Cumbria, and works as a team coordinator for the charity Save the Children’s Humanitarian Public Health team; she is currently working from her office […]Read More
As cabin fever kicks in and each day blends into the next readers may seek something different. A book does wonders for the mind; but a magazine, ah, now that is something different. The notion of the magazine shouldn’t be synonymous with cheap nonsense. The print world has taken a hammering in recent years, yet a […]Read More
With food wastage at unprecedented levels, we researched ways to make your budget go further by using parts of fruit and veg you might otherwise dispose of.Read More
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is check my social media. I have a scroll through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and maybe even my LinkedIn page. On each of these days I wake up to new posts about dieting, exercise, or some sort of product being sold to enhance not only my health, but my appearance.Read More
If you’re in your final year of education, now is probably a good time to start thinking about the future. Don’t worry, I am not here to lecture you. The question, “what do you intend to do with your life?” has probably popped up all too often and the last thing you need is another person […]Read More
It’s that time of the year again when the all fresh-faced sixth formers of the country grudgingly return to face every students’ worse nightmare: A Levels. Two years of hard work before you’re finally set free at university can seem like a daunting ask but, with the right mentality and effective revision techniques, it needn’t […]Read More
Society idolises Oxbridge. An offer from either Oxford or Cambridge has become a synonym for success, with many high-achieving students feeling they need an Oxbridge offer to validate their intelligence. This is wrong. While Oxbridge might be the right decision for some, others allow prestige to blind their judgement. There are many things to consider […]Read More
The final year of school is overflowing with milestones and one of them is applying to university. According to UCAS, 592,290 students applied for university in the last academic year, and 18 year olds from lower income backgrounds are almost twice more likely to apply to university now than they were ten years ago. 409,000 […]Read More
This is where the rest of your life begins; this is the escape from your humdrum suburban life. You didn’t want to be in the trades or just settle – you’ve broken free. But where exactly does freedom leave you? Everything that you know; the surroundings that formed you as a child, are now gone. […]Read More
Despite education on the cruelty of its trade from various animal rights groups, widespread public opposition and even greater government regulation, fur has managed to make its way back into fashion – big time. Fur for a short time seemed like it might never return to the pedestal it had, but now it has clawed […]Read More
From Donald Trump to your grandparents – people are strangely obsessed with what’s going on with your uterus. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman, a man, a gender non-conformist: if you’ve got a uterus, people seem to want to know what your intentions are with it. As a child and adolescent, adults will happily […]Read More
Beside my laptop are three resources relating to an art form I know relatively little about – I mean, I just scraped a B grade in GCSE Textiles – but am consistently enthralled by: the August issue of Vogue, It by Alexa Chung and 100 Years of Fashion by Cally Blackman. I’d feel like a […]Read More
Anyone familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘A Scarlet Letter’ will be familiar with the story of Hester Prynne, a married woman who commits adultery in Puritan Boston and ends up pregnant with the pastor’s child. To recompense for her sin, she is forced by the community to wear a scarlet ‘A’ on her clothes as a […]Read More
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