The United Kingdom has been shaken by the news of 19-year-old IS Bride, Shamima Begum’s, desire to return to Britain after four years spent with the radical group. While still a school girl, Begum travelled from Bethnal Green, East London to Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS caliphate and now she wishes to return […]
Thoughts on Goya’s Black Paintings
Francisco Goya; a Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker, portraitist to the Spanish nobility. Later, after a period of personal suffering, he is the painter of the dark collection: the ‘Black Paintings’, which has stemmed controversial opinion. While some find his surreal ‘Black Paintings’ subjects intriguing and revelatory, others deem them too grotesque to be placed […]
University of Exeter Research Helps to Increases Early Diabetes Diagnoses
Funded by Diabetes UK, innovative research has developed a diabetes risk score test which operates with higher efficacy for the diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. Carried out by the University of Exeter and the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle, the new T1DGRS2 risk score test can be used to increase the accuracy of diabetes […]
Interview Fashion
You probably don’t need a reminder, but interview season is fast approaching, and although your main focus is most likely getting those applications in on time, some forward thinking to outfit-planning won’t go amiss for when the fateful day of the interview finally dawns. When it comes to an interview, you might think that it’s […]
Macedonia’s Name Debate Comes to an End
A 27-year dispute has been put to rest in Europe after a name deal was sealed between Athens and Skopje. The Greek parliament has rejected Macedonia’s name for decades since its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Following the name deal in January, Greece’s neighbour will now add ‘North’ to its title, taking on the new […]
Overlord – Review
Plunged into gritty action from the outset of the film, viewers of J.J. Abrams’ new release, Overlord, are immediately presented with a war-torn panorama of the largest seaborne invasion in history. The action opens with an introduction to the American paratroopers whose journey we follow as they parachute beyond enemy lines in order to destroy […]