Boxed up within 4 walls, we all have been sitting and waiting for the day that Boris Johnson would finally muster the words "The lockdown is now over. You are free to visit your loved ones and are all now safe." But have any of
Let’s be honest, lockdown sucks. The sun is shining and we are stuck inside into the colours of the sofa without our full coverage foundation and glowing highlight. But this isolation period could be the perfect opportunity for us to try out those beauty products
The tragic love story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is famously immortalised through the declaration that: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". However, in my most recent revisiting of the play it has come to my attention that in regards to the play's full
When I read the words ‘child’ and ‘marriage’ together in any context, I am automatically stunned - mainly due to the fact that our society is deemed to be ‘modern’. Yet as I found myself watching BBC’s “Married at 15: America’s child brides” The truth
I’ve lost all concept of time. No but for real this time. Stuck in the middle of a pandemic. Where’s Boris? have you checked your fridge? Perhaps he’s hidden under the corona tracker app, Or underneath the weekly applauds. Yet he cheered against a pay rise for NHS staff less than
Being a girl is hard. There is no denying that. We live in a society where we are expected to behave in certain ways and look, well quite frankly, perfect. I have been taken in by this imaginary rulebook many a time and it has
It has been said that the world has become a war zone of sexism and language has been our weapon of mass destruction. I’m sure feminists would like to argue that our language has been corrupted and torn apart by men in order to slowly
It is, to me anyway, week 75234 of lockdown. The ice cream has gone from the freezer and I can barely remember what some of my friends look like. But, finally, it appears as though the peak of the pandemic is over, and the government
"Everyone sees what you appear to be; few really know what you are" Born in Florence in 1469, Niccolò di Bernado Machiavelli grew up in an Italy dominated by many works of history and philosophy, most noticeably an entire tradition of artistic works known as "mirrors for princes" that almost acted as
In this difficult time, It can be quite hard to focus on anything other than the news of the epidemic, or any updates on the lock-down - which is why I decided to compile a list of 8 brilliant books which I've read (and re-read!)