I was listening to a podcast last week called Commons People, which is a UK politics and current affairs podcast. On last week’s episode, they had a number of guests on to speak about the issue of Sarah Everard’s murder and what could be done to prevent this happening to…

My thoughts on a headline that made me angry this week. I innocently checked my phone one day this week and was confronted by this headline from The Telegraph: How does Helena Christensen look this good at 52? There are a few questions I want to ask here, the details of which I will go into in this post: Why are…

If I were to make you guess the identity of a charming, fairly youthful, liberal, handsome world leader, who comes to mind? If you guessed Justin Treudeau of Canada then you are definitely along the right lines. His image blends with Canada’s international reputation as the ‘nice’ capital of the…

At a time when I am trying to choose a master’s degree, I am being forced to contemplate the ‘value’ of certain subjects. I am interested in culture and politics, and I’m especially interested in how they interact. …

I recently came to a revelation, a different perspective. (I might note that many others have probably come to this conclusion far before me.) My revelation was: We are ruled, for the most part, by a minority. By that, I mean white men. If we want to get specific, I…

In my previous post, I discussed the ways that gendered and misogynistic language exert effects in contemporary life, sometimes without their users even properly realising it. I love language, and the power that it has over how we view and react to the world. I love analysing this potence. …

Research shows that young people are more anxious and depressed than 20 years ago. Rates of suicide and self-harm in teenage girls have increased drastically in the last decade. These increases coincide with the birth of the internet and, more recently, social media. This doesn’t exactly come as a surprise…

In an increasingly chaotic (and dystopian) world, we can comfort ourselves in knowing the difference between good and bad. Or can we? In this post, I want to explore the difficulty, and even fault, in trying to assign binary notions of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to people or actions, because, often…

The Cambridge online dictionary defines as cancel culture ‘a way of behaving in a society or group, especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you’. …