• Brains + Breakdown: The relationship between the genius and addiction in TV

    Emily Fletcher The ‘Genius’ and their experience of addiction can be seen in Netflix’s new original limited series The Queen’s Gambit, which was recently released. It takes on a young girl’s ascent into the world of competitive chess and her descent into an addiction to prescription drugs and alcohol....
  • W Series And F1: Why 2021 Looks Particularly Promising For Women In Motorsport

    Madelaine Telford 2020 has been a difficult year for women in motorsport. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the W Series’ 2020 season was cancelled. In August, Williams’ Team Principal Claire Williams stepped down from her role, after years of inspiring young women to pursue careers in an...
  • Is This… An Insight? The Power Of Memes Through The Eyes Of A Future Historian

    ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ is perhaps not an analogy we’d initially think to use when describing our 21st century meme culture. Such a literary turn of phrase should be reserved solely for deciphering meaning behind political cartoons published in early Victorian newspapers, or tenuous unpicking of...
  • Can UK Homes Be Powered By Offshore Wind By 2030?

    Rian Patel “Wind farms couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding,” Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, said in 2013. Seven years on and a lot has changed. Johnson, as Prime Minister, now proclaims his desire to see the UK as the “Saudi Arabia of Wind Power”, having...
  • The Culture Of Fear In British Gymnastics

    Joe Holmes-Milner TW: This article contains accounts of: Physical violence; Sexual violence; Abuse. Rio 2016 represented the pinnacle of Great British gymnastics. GB won seven medals – a record haul. A million British children flooded gymnasiums in the subsequent month with dreams of turning cartwheels into vaults and floor...
  • TV Review: Euphoria

    HBO’s Euphoria is reaching new heights in popularity with its soundtrack and aesthetics achieving mounting social media attention. The eight episodes – released in summer 2019 – stars Zendaya and follows the journey of 17-year-old Rue, who begins the programme having just left rehab for drug addiction....
  • Should The Government Lock-Up University Students

    Like a paper sticky label on your new sets of kitchen plates, stubbornly refusing to come off without relentless scrubbing, the term ‘students’ has been irreversibly tangled with the idea of COVID- infected party animals. ...