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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Once heralded as the idealised version of male behaviour, chivalry was the standard to win the hearts of medieval dames and Victorian aristocrats, as well as 40s pin-ups and Disney Princesses. Yet, as a modernising society, the beating…

In the depths of December 2014 whist I was cramming for A-Level mocks, my History teacher suggested I visited the deputy Head’s Office. There, she sat me down and informed me that the school wanted to test me for a learning difficulty.…

Arguably the most popular forms of modern technology are text messaging and the use of social media. Said technologies have become such a vital part of what society considers a normal life, that it seems that despite their virtual nature,…

This week you’ve gone over every scenario possible in your head about what can happen tomorrow. Today you’ve checked the grade boundaries and done the maths in your mind about how realistic it is to get an A. Tomorrow, you’ll wake up and…

I'm an atheist. And yes, you've already began to feel a sense of unease. Your judgement is suddenly clouded by an air of suspicion. I can tell because it happens with nearly everybody. The second you mention the A-word to someone, they…

Our inspirations are what drive us forward. They encourage us to make certain decisions, to pick certain paths. Inspirations can come in a vast array of forms, but one of the most common is people. This is part two in a collection of people…