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'Go Home': The hidden story of refugees (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall In February I watched Ms Shu Shin Luh advocate on behalf of six asylum seekers ‘unlawfully housed’ in the dangerous and...
Aug 3, 20214 min read
Brown Girls Do It Too (P. Yannamani)
By Pranathi Yannamani Picture: BBC Brown Girls Do It Too is a podcast on BBC sounds featuring two South Asian women, Rubina Pabani and...
Mar 20, 20214 min read
Ain't that a shame (J. Plowright)
By John Plowright After Adam and Eve defied God and ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge “the eyes of them both were opened, and...
Feb 22, 20212 min read
Soul: Pixar Misses its Mark (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson The latest release from Disney in their Pixar Originals class had me worried - had I become too cynical in my old age to...
Feb 8, 202111 min read
Will Britain's isolation outlive the pandemic? (K. Canaway)
By Kyoko Canaway (Photo: https://www.export.org.uk/news/544053/Port-bosses-in-Dover-and-Calais-expect-freight-to-move-smoothly-at-start-o...
Jan 10, 20215 min read
2021: The best New Year yet? (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall (Photo: https://www.preparing4care.co.uk/information/latest-news/memory-haven-is-an-award-winning-app-for-dementia-patie...
Dec 31, 20204 min read
'I May Destroy You' - A story of questions (L. Johnson, T. Shaw)
Artwork by James Cowen I May Destroy You hit our screens earlier this year on both HBO and BBC amidst the abyss that was early lockdown...
Dec 21, 20209 min read
We've been here before (T. Shaw)
By Tim Shaw A supposed quote from a sassy teenager at the beginning of the UK Covid-19 crisis: “Oh God, I can’t believe I’m living...
Nov 23, 20206 min read
Don't (mis)quote me on that! (J. Plowright)
(By John Plowright) I guess that ever since people have been thought worthy of quotation they’ve been misquoted (“Blessed are the...
Oct 25, 20204 min read
Star Wars - It's fear, not hope, that rules this galaxy (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, what began with one space opera in 1977 quickly grew into a media empire...
Oct 11, 20208 min read
Is Benedict Cumberbatch Racist? (K. Canaway)
By Kyoko Canaway Am I allowed to say this? Will it be deemed politically incorrect and offensive to use this term? Questions like this...
Sep 21, 20205 min read
50 Shades: It's not all about the sex (L. Johnson)
By Lydia Johnson (Photo: http://brandsandfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/50ShadesOfGrey_Trilogy.jpg) Okay…so hear me out… The...
Sep 13, 20209 min read
Sterling choice but is real change on offer? (J. Plowright)
By John Plowright (Photo: CNN) Gandhi, who already graces the rupee, is apparently set to be the first non-white person to feature on...
Sep 6, 20202 min read
You're cancelled: the freedom of social media (L. Bramall)
By Laura Bramall (Photo: Katie Carey) “How can we use this drug sensibly? Because it is a drug and with every drug you need to moderate...
Aug 23, 20205 min read
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
La Salamandra- A story closer to home than it seems (K. Canaway)
By Kyoko Canaway People often try and divide literature into two distinct categories: the books you read to relax and step out of the...
Jul 23, 20205 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
Was Beethoven Black? (K. Canaway)
Beethoven was black.
Or so it has periodically been claimed since as early as 1915 (1). Over the course of the past century...
Jul 6, 20203 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
Horrible History (J. Plowright)
By John Plowright In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement there has been an...
Jun 19, 20204 min read
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