home run

“Where are you from?” “Cambridge” I lie, when anyone from outside of East Anglia asks me. Technically, I grew up in a tiny village north of the city, but Cambridge is still ‘home’. Cambridge is a little urban hotspot for creativity, science, culture and history in the East Anglian countryside...

Ahh, London. The spiritual home of the permanently irritated. It’s a cliché, but you can take the man out of London, but you can’t take the London out of the man. Five minutes into your first tube journey in months and you’re already spewing. Why are you standing in...

There’s a sense of calm that comes with not knowing where you’ll be at the end of the day. I’m referring to the idea of a camping road-trip, something most Californians have looked forward to in their life. Something I live for because California is in my blood, and...

I am a Brummie, born and bred. I am a Peaky Blinders enthusiast and I consider curry a food group. People have a lot of preconceptions about Birmingham, and unfairly so. While the debate of whether we are northerners or southerners looms on, I suggest that if you haven’t...

My name is Alexander, I am a first year law student at the University of Nottingham. I came to the UK straight from Poland, but have also lived in the Netherlands for three years. I come from Gliwice, a city in the South of Poland. It is the westernmost...

Having a dad in the army, you might expect I’ve seen many different areas of the country. But although we’ve lived in Germany for a while, when in Britain, my family has always returned to Salisbury Plain. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, it is a large training area –...