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Amelia Cropley Amelia Cropley’s go-to reads concern heroines, whether they be victims or victors. Sadly, there is only a handful of female victors throughout literature, and contrastingly, not enough time to name all victims. Nevertheless, if it has a female lead, it’s on her list to read, just as...
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Amelia Cropley In early October, the Daily Mail took to their Sunday edition Mail on Sunday, to write about one of our university’s second year English modules, ‘Chaucer and his Contemporaries’. The Mail on Sunday surprisingly requested information using Freedom of Information laws and found it necessary to speak...
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Amelia Cropley Benjamin Franklin was unfortunately correct when he said there is nothing in life more certain than death and taxes. And if you didn’t believe it before, you will now after the Labour Party’s Autumn Budget concerning farmers nationwide. Following Chancellor of Exchequer, Rachel Reeves’ decision to implement...
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Amelia Cropley With the recent fall of November snow, it has become inevitable that the Christmas season is upon us once again. And with it comes every city’s celebration of Christmas lights, ice-skating rinks and mulled wine. And whilst nothing lifts the Christmas spirit more than a Christmas market,...
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Amelia Cropley Farewell, ‘Brat Summer’; welcome to the show, ‘Demure Autumn’! Oh yes, the fashion trend of the season has quickly changed once again. Although ‘trends’ have recently exited the bandwagon, having been replaced with vibes and aesthetics. The summer of 2024 quickly adopted the aesthetic of a so-called...
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Amelia Cropley Melania Trump claims the government should stay away from reproductive rights: but what happens when the government is her husband? With the upcoming US elections nearing, there is another political stance that we need to be addressing: that of Melania Trump. In a promotional video for her forthcoming...