The value that society places on youth and beauty is truly astonishing. I know I am not the first to recognize this, however I truly understood the effects that the media and society had on this on my recent holiday to Prague. Saturday in the Old Town Square in Prague, […]

“The arts are an even better barometer for what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress…” Henrik Wilem Von Loon I was speaking with an acquaintance of mine a few days ago (I was also wracked with nerves as I was about to […]

Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, child abuse, victim blaming. I hate it when people say “It’s time to talk about x”; “It’s time we sat down and had a serious discussion about y”; “It’s time the two sides stopped squabbling and hammered out their differences over z”. Especially if they’re […]

In this new journalistic era of parsimony, one’s artistry and literary prowess are insufficient. For, whilst spirit and skill are necessary, it is experience that is imperative in the realm of reporting. Aspiring graduates are frequently greeted with three familiar words upon searching for employment: “one year’s experience”. In such […]

My weigh in on the media’s coverage of the death of Margaret Thatcher: my reaction to the reactions.    Whatever you think about Thatcher, old women, strokes, strikes, Tories, the dead; your view was probably echoed thousands of times across the internet last week. At lunchtime on Monday, the web experienced […]

Yes, as bizarre as it may sound – the over-criminalisation of all sexual activity between minors, is almost wholly responsible for the UK’s high teenage pregnancy rate and high teenage sex rate. Why? S.13 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (by virtue of s.9) criminalised ‘sexual touching’ between minors, however […]

There comes a point in everybody’s life were reality begins to rear it’s ugly head. This normally happens upon finishing university, being in so much debt that you’re considering prostitution and realising you’re probably not going to get a job. When this eventually happens it’s back to square one.  Yes, back to […]

“All together now”, that seems to be the call from Hollywood at the moment with some great characters being thrown together to form something magnificent. That’s what most people seemed to be saying when coming out of the cinema after watching the ultimate superhero team-up ever. Well the word that […]