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Normal People: The fast track to depression (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson The Normal People series hit hard, and as one of the last dramas to air before lockdown people were more than ready to...
Aug 9, 20208 min read


Listen to the voices of the past (W. Banks)
Listening to the voices of the past: the importance of polyvocality in school history curricula By Will Banks Word processors have been...
Aug 2, 20204 min read


Gender in a global pandemic (M. Tarrant)
By Mimi Tarrant Since the first case of COVID-19 was identified in China in January, 2020, multiple studies have been conducted to...
Jul 19, 20205 min read


Fetishisation is not support (K. McCarthy)
By Katie McCarthy If I had a pound for every time someone has stared at me whilst I got with someone, asked me for a threesome or made a...
Jul 16, 20203 min read


Why White People Need to Talk about Race (A. Wilson)
By Alistair Wilson If you’re reading this, you’re probably white. As a self-help tool, this book is largely for you. To a person of...
Jul 11, 20206 min read


Beauty is Two Metres Behind the Rest (P. Yannamani)
During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Boris Johnson was asked by William Wragg, a conservative MP, when beauty salons would be...
Jul 8, 20202 min read


Deary Deary Me! Or just how vile were the Victorians? (J. Plowright)
By John Plowright Forget about the reform of History curricula for a moment. If you really want to understand and influence the...
Jul 4, 20206 min read


Frailty, thy name isn’t woman: are female leaders better at dealing with crises? (E. Bennett)
By Eve Bennett (Photo: Guido Bergmann) “Wir schaffen das.” Whether you speak German or not, if you’ve followed European politics to any...
May 11, 20205 min read


Courage calls to courage everywhere (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall Fawcett’s banner ‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’ stares down at us from her plinth in Parliament Square. She has...
Mar 8, 20203 min read


BOSSY WOMEN (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall I have four problems with BOSSY WOMEN. Here they are: Sometimes you just have to get what you want I’m not condoning...
Jan 21, 20203 min read


The Cost of Pain (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall Being a woman is really really painful. I’m sure being a man is painful too, but nothing like as bad. I’m not just...
Dec 2, 20193 min read


Why intersectional feminism? Why a blog? (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall In sixth form, I wrote an article for the first edition of our philosophy magazine titled ‘HOW NOT TO BE AN ANNOYING...
Nov 6, 20192 min read
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