Why I'm Going Offline and So Should You

Firstly, apologies. I know no-one reads these things, but I would like to formally apologise to my non-existent readers for being so absent. The truth is after a year of writing, I seem to have run out of original, satirical studenty stuff (aside from writing about cone theft), so I will be one of the many millions of people who use their blogging...

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The Media Needs to Bring People Together in the Face of Terrorism, Not Drive Them Apart

A video emerged earlier this week of a man in a supermarket insulting a Muslim woman by calling her 'Batman' and then telling her how he knew a 'white girl who married a Muslim man and she had a poster of an ISIS...

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5 Ways University Helped Me out of My Shell

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Picture a lonely young teen, reading her Harry Potter in the corner while wistfully admiring those laughing with their friends in the playground below. Yep, that’s me. Okay so maybe I...

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Boozy Britain: Are We Encouraging Alcoholism in Our Youth?

 Imagens Evangélicas / Flickr Now I enjoy several drinks as much as the next student, but how much is too much? With many uni events solely based on alcohol, I find myself sympathising with those who don’t...

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This Is the Post That Shows You I'm Lovable

So it's 2016!!11!! What did you all do for NYE? I had a wicked awesome time with my friends from home and we got so wavy but it was all good because we had fun playing drunk Twister and then Stacey got her head stuck in...

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Where do I go next? What does the future have in store for me? What career will I have for the rest of my life? These are just an array of questions I ask myself from time to time, and now with the second year of my degree...

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When the World Needed to Show Some Humanity

Disclaimer: In a slight twist to my usual posts, I feel strongly about the migrant crisis and I feel I'd be actively ignoring an alarming issue by writing something trifling on how to avoid a hangover.  This article...

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