Lauren Haughey analyses our consumerist mindsets over the holiday period
capitalism
Skittles and retrospection
Louis Allsop retrospectively ruminates on his personal Pride Month experience
LGBTQ liberation, not rainbow capitalism
Kamila Bell exposes the issues surrounding the commercialisation of Pride month.
Big Money and The Arts
The Booker Prize Foundation has lost a £1.6 million sponsorship deal with London-based hedge fund managers, The Man Group. Despite the Foundation’s grace under pressure, this is a huge deal in the literary world. In a statement, Thomas Keneally, winner of the prize in 1982, called the chaos a ‘climactic change in over the book […]
The Death of The Author: A Fun, Expensive Funeral
I just finished a Creative Writing course here in Exeter, which was lovely. It doesn’t make me art, or an artist, but it did make me create things and pore over them religiously. The last week of the course was entirely dedicated to the art of editing and raising awareness of the weirdness and clumsiness […]
Expensive Tastes
I am the first to admit that I have expensive taste. This position is rarely in congruence with my bank account – like most students, I am more Primark than Prada – but it doesn’t stop me from appreciating the finer things in life, even if at a distance. We are generally drawn to expensive […]
The Haunting Lessons of Issue Horror
A desolate castle rising out of a jagged hilltop, surrounded on all sides by dense forest. A full moon in the inky, starless sky above. Here there be monsters, make no mistake. In this sunken place, there lives a stalking, ghoulish creature, with sallow skin and narrow eyes; the eyes of a killer. One who feeds […]
Meal deal mayhem
Once every month or so, numerous articles will slither around the internet telling millennials to stop doing something: stop ruining diamonds, stop ruining brunch, stop sacrificing your mental and emotional wellbeing in order to reach standards of social involvement that you’ve set yourself, stop ruining jeans. All that stuff us millennials love doing. Recently, the […]
Is Valentine’s Day Just a Capitalist Holiday?
As a perpetually single girl, I tend to turn into Bridget Jones come Valentine’s Day. I eat the entire contents of my fridge, drink several glasses of wine, and wait patiently for Colin Firth to knock on my door and declare his undying love. We all take part in this annual pity-fest, but why? I’m […]
New Year’s Resolutions: Just another capitalist guilt trip?
This Christmas I was given guilt as a gift but, naturally, with the state of the postal service, it arrived just in time for New Year’s Day. Perfect timing: New Year, new me, right? Bollocks. I’ve never really understood this perverse annual self-depreciation contest, feeling bad about yourself or your indulgences. We roll off the […]