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The Leech
It is my four hundred and fortieth year upon this Earth, and I can no longer recognize my own face. I know it in essence, have seen the...
Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Jan 28, 20238 min read


The forgotten crisis: period poverty and the cost of living
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Period poverty management and education, has worsened in the current economic climate with the...
Sorcha Tipping
Jan 17, 20234 min read
Move better
Your petrol powered boast is trumped by the muscle moved machine, its mechanical cleverness is humble and sporting. It does not growl nor...
Alistair Kevan
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Bud
I can't bear to throw out the dead flowers: When I dropped the bunch in the compost this morning, the one still alive fell from the group...
Hermione Byron
Dec 1, 20221 min read


From Westminster to the Jungle – What has Hancock done?
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Matt Hancock, former Health Secretary and current independent MP for West Suffolk, has entered the jungle...
Sorcha Tipping
Nov 25, 20224 min read


Hangmen: A Review
Rating: **** Passers-by would have heard laughter coming from the Wee Red Bar mid-November, along with sounds of fighting, drunken...
Flora Leask
Nov 24, 20223 min read


Buffer zones: The next logical step
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq With the overturning of Roe v Wade earlier this year, it is no doubt that pro-life groups have been given...
Olivia Lee
Nov 17, 20224 min read


Posh: A review
Rating - ***** Upon hearing that a play called Posh was being put on by Edinburgh students I was apprehensive, thinking Edinburgh —...
Jasmine Owen-Moulding
Nov 17, 20223 min read
Tranquility
Many are those who, straining to be heard above the throbbing dub of the local coffee shop, insist that they work better with music, and...
Charlie Barber
Nov 16, 20224 min read


Vulnerable woman: Everyday normality in Egypt
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq A country advancing politically, economically and even socially, Egypt has been celebrated for moving...
Amy Walker
Nov 14, 20225 min read


Turn on, tune in, log out
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Like’ it or not, social media is reshaping our brains. In more ways than one, the internet influences...
Hermione Byron
Nov 10, 20224 min read


Beyond the generational battlefield: changing portrayals of older people through activism
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Homeowners. Renters. Xenophobic. Cosmopolitan.Pension. Precarity. Conservative. Progressive....
Verity Limond
Nov 9, 20224 min read
A Song for Laika
A while ago, in the back of a bar in Madrid, a friend once asked me which, out of all of God’s creatures who ever walked this earth, I...
Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Nov 6, 20226 min read


Less Is More – Great Wealth Taxations and the Guaranteed Income
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq If a multi-millionaire stockbroker is in receipt of the same guaranteed income as a part-time bartender...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 31, 20224 min read
the egg
a horse rolls its eyes in me nervous whites reflecting windows held ajar by splintered blocks eyelash trembling tempting my hunger...
Flora Leask
Oct 28, 20221 min read
Casas de nación (Houses of nation)
Casas de nación Casa de palabras: mátame. Casa de imágenes: acógeme. En este mundo de casa y casas, ¿dónde quedó la casa de aquél? ¿Qué...
Julián Camilo Corzo Ochoa
Oct 25, 20221 min read


A coerced narrative
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq “I often find narrative and storytelling to be helpful.” (Margaret Akers, Life Society Meeting, Mon 17th,...
Grace Murray
Oct 25, 20223 min read


This is not a Financial Crisis —This is a crisis of economics
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq We are amid a crisis of economics. To make the first step towards understanding the crisis of our time,...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 17, 20224 min read


The Conservative Party is a Libertarian Party
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq What is a conservative? We use such a great deal of terminology in British politics that one doesn’t...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 10, 20224 min read
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
The vans travelled alone, materializing in back alleys and underneath streetlamps, when the funeral shroud of night had been drawn over...
Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Sep 28, 202211 min read
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