Is Remembrance Day glorifying war or is it an important tribute?
Poppies, a tradition instilled into our culture since 1921, is our nations way of remembering the lives lost during the World Wars. Older still is the two-minute silence on the…
Education is key to tackling the sugar crisis
The rise in the popularity of sharing ‘food porn’ – often including cheese-pulls (from an overloaded toastie, pizza or plate of chips), cookie dough, or gallons of chocolate sauce –…
Scrap the app: the government is failing working class students
It never comes as a great surprise when our current Conservative government releases an incentive that places the onus upon the citizen – always viewed through the lens of consumerism…
Physical and mental health: two sides of the same coin
We all have mental health. The wellbeing of our minds is as important as that of our bodies. The two are interconnected, in more ways than one. Yet we continue…
Personal experience: mental health and mixed race beauty
There is an unbearable whiteness of beauty. That is, what and who may be considered beautiful is Eurocentrically defined. Beauty standards have long stood as a rejection of non-white bodies,…