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With the recent release of Netflix’s Bridgerton, controversy has arisen surrounding its depiction of sexual violence between partners. This controversy has shone a light on the wider issues of the glorification of sexual assault in entertainment mediums, with many TV shows using it as a plot device....

Victoria Treiber Nearly a month into this lockdown now- I know, it doesn’t feel like it. For anyone in a similar position to me, the days have started to blur into one, only being broken up by sporadic calls from family and friends. For essential workers, however, it is unlikely to...

Imagine celebrating NYE 2019 - planning holidays and making resolutions for the year ahead. How disappointed would you be? Flipping between the COVID19 pandemic and intensifying political (and non-political) division, 2020 seems to have been nothing but constant bleakness. However, it was also a testament of human integrity and...

It would have been a lovely occasion, for those who celebrate Christmas. Having toiled through each and every wave of hardship and despair 2020 has thrown at us, imagine if we could have gathered together with all of our loved ones, eaten good food, drank mulled wine, and sang along with Michael Bublé’s...

The government have released a ten-point policy plan this month which has outlined how the UK is to become carbon-zero by 2050. A key feature of this ‘Green Industrial Revolution’, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it, is the pledge to ban the sale of petrol cars by...

On November 7, 2020, sandwiched in a parking lot between the Delaware Valley Crematorium and the “Fantasy Island” adult video store, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s lawyer and the former Mayor of New York City, stood at a podium set up in front of a garage door haphazardly adorned with...

Eastenders star Maisie Smith was the firm favourite to win Strictly Come Dancing in the run up to the opening of the show in October. Bookies everywhere put odds on the 19-year-old to win the glitter ball trophy this year. With her stage school training, youth on her side,...