Statues and Memorials: An imperfect reality
Josiah Wedgewood. John Lambton. Two names with very little connection. However, both of them played their part in Britain’s imperial legacy in understated, yet significant ways. They embody a complex…
2020
Triumph of Klopp’s Heavy Metal Football: Liverpool win the Premier League for the first time!
Jurgen Klopp’s teams may play heavy metal football on the pitch, but his style of management-an emblem of patience, grit, structure, and heroic spirit-is more attuned to that of a…
Do games ever handle LGBT+ representation well?
What counts as good representation and what counts as a token effort?
All the Bright Places: Film Vs Book
Rachael explores "All the Bright Places' by Jennifer Niven: Film Vs Book
How technology is fueling a détente in the Middle East
Martha Muir examines how technology is fueling a détente between Israel and its Gulf neighbours.
Preprint Articles in a Pandemic: Friend or Foe?
Research on COVID-19 is flooding preprint servers which publish findings before specialist scrutiny. Alex Bird asks whether this trend to make science instantly accessible could be magnifying the spread of…
Ode to Angelou’s Bird
BLM movement as an analogy of a caged bird
Drug Dexamethasone Cuts COVID-19 Deaths
A low-cost, widely available steroid lowered mortality among critically ill COVID-19 patients by one-third in a rigorous large-scale UK trial, Esther Gillmor reports.
Are Individual Actions Important in the Climate Crisis?
Big businesses must bear most of the burden for the climate crisis, but it is imperative that we all take some responsibility for leading unsustainable lifestyles when environmentally friendly alternatives…
John Grisham’s ‘Camino Winds’
Nick Brown writes a fantastically honest review on John Grisham's 'Camino Winds'