My parents have taken me to the theatre since I was a tot, and therefore a love of musicals has been instilled in me. I recognise that I’ve been extremely fortunate in being able to attend lots of live theatre performances and that many of these can be extortionately priced. Musical film adaptations are a […]
Freshers Feelings
First year won’t be the best year of your life. There, I said it. It will be filled with its fair share of loneliness, tears, homesickness and general heartache. The excitement of being a fresher won’t make you immune to the natural sadness and confusion of moving away from home and growing up. And that […]
Culture Club: Post #MeToo
In a landmark moment for the Me Too movement, Oprah Winfrey used her Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech to declare that “for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up”. To rapturous applause, Winfrey captured the […]
A Fistful of Genres: The Romantic-Comedy
In the infamous words of Hugh Grant in Love, Actually, ‘Love actually is all around’. We’ve been brought up surrounded by conversations about love – we read about it in our books; we know the lyrics to love-centred songs by heart (yes, Mr Brightside is a song about the complications of love) and we’ve all […]
Advice on adulting
I’m not sure how qualified I am to write this article. As a person who perpetually runs home to their mum in the face of the tiniest adversity, I’m not entirely certain I’ve earned the status of ‘adult’ yet. But, I live to tell the tale of a turbulent first year, with only one burnt […]
Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
In 1985, during a decade characterised by fervent sexual politics, Margaret Atwood published her landmark dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”. It prophesises that in the near future, America has been turned into a totalitarian theocracy called Gilead in which fertile women, dubbed “Handmaids”, are owned by the state and forced to partake in a form […]
Why We Should Be Celebrating Galentine’s Day Instead
More rom-coms are beginning to crop up in the Netflix ‘recently added’ section; the radio stations are beginning to play more love songs; This Morning’s real life segments are becoming increasingly romance related. Yes, that’s right, Valentine’s Day is here. Singletons all over the world have been preparing themselves for the annual bombardment of images […]