Are New Year’s Resolutions Really Worth Making?
Image Credits: Smart Sitting Blog With the Christmas holidays over and the spring semester in motion, I want to discuss the habit to ‘start fresh’ in January. Whether you have…
Chanukah/Hanukkah
Words by Amira Herz From Sunday 28th November, the Jewish community will begin to celebrate the festival of Chanukah from sundown. This festival takes place across an eight-day period, celebrating…
The City of Darkness: Hong Kong’s anarchist society
Words by Rhys Mather, Features Sub-Editor Prior to 1994, if you journeyed to the Kowloon City District of Hong Kong you could find a series of 300 interconnected towers, some…
“Red Nation Shall Rise Again”
In 1492, Arawak, Taino, and Lucayan tribes of the Caribbean discovered Christopher Columbus on their shoreline. Columbus had been sponsored by Spanish Catholic monarchs to investigate potential new routes to…
Movember and Men’s Mental Health
Image credits: Movember TW – Depression, Anxiety and Suicide topics are discussed in this article. As November draws to an end, along with it ends the course of Movember. Movember…
To Kill a Legacy
I didn’t like Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird. As an amateur literature fanatic, I had to find myself avoiding mention of the book in literary conversation and wondering if…
Adderall and Ritalin: The Steroids of ESports
Image credits: pxphere Words By: Rhys Mather Athletes have been doping for as long as competitive sports have existed, and a staggering number of them do it. The World Anti-Doping…
The Bizarre World of Psychic Spies
Image Credit: MaxPixel Words By Rhys Mather, Features Sub-Editor Jon Ronson’s book “the men who stare at goats” tells the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, a Vietnam veteran…
The Practice and the History of the Tarot
(Left, the Tarot card Death taken by Ali Arief. Right: The Tarot card The Star taken by Ali Arief) Words By: Ali Arief The inherent mystique that shrouds many Occult…
Phillip King CBE PRA
Phillip King CBE PRA (1 May 1934 – 27 July 2021) was a British sculptor, who helped to reimagine the very concept of sculptural art in Britain in the mid…
‘Entertainment Value’: The Twitch leak and content creators
Photo Credit: Dennis Yang – Flickr What financial value would you put on your weekly entertainment? Valuing that entertainment is easier when you pay a Netflix subscription, but what about…
The Luxury of Articulation
Image credits: Flickr During the summer holidays and the dropping of Covid-19 restrictions, I found myself in the cinema watching the sequel movie ‘A Quiet Place II’. Whilst this is…
Interview with Chalkback
Words By Andreas Lange “As a woman obviously, – I say ‘obviously’, because it’s so common -, I’ve faced street harassment since I was ten or eleven years old.” Kelli…
The cruel reality of slavery in Mauritania
Image credits: jbdodane- flickr This article discusses slavery and sexual violence Words By Rhys Mather Slavery is endemic in Mauritania, with the Global Slavery Index estimating 2.4% of the population…
Don’t Lose Your Way
Words By Andreas Lange. The sun peeks in between the green leaves swaying faintly in the warm September breeze, the calm hum of bees working to collect the season’s last…
Stolen Masterpieces and Where to Find Them
Art theft plays a much more prominent role in the making of art history than some security guards may be willing to admit. Publicity around the two-year hunt for the…
Guantanamo Bay: a 20-year legacy of abuse and the men that remain
Words By Rhys Mather. In the 20 years since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, 779 prisoners have been detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. Today, the…
An authentic guide discovering the Rainbow City: Brighton and Hove
Moving down to university and away from home can be a daunting experience especially for those of you who have never lived/ been to Brighton for. To make this move…
The last Jew in Afghanistan
Words By Olly DeHerrera The mid-August fall of Afghanistan to Taliban control has prompted concern for the wellbeing of the man popularly dubbed ‘The last Jew in Afghanistan’. 62yr old…
Moving to University and The Switch To An Independent Lifestyle
Words by Grace Dawes Making the move to university is never a straightforward process. Whether it is admitted or not, everyone is vulnerable to the reality and fear of loneliness…