The Trinket Economy
Let’s explore the popularity of trinket collecting and the use of a bag as a canvas for personal expression.
November 2024
Platonic Love: Where you will always be the Right Choice
There is a long list of potential titles I keep in the notes app of my phone to eventually expend 700 words on, but this idea has been bubbling inside…
Hiking an active volcano in Guatemala
I have spent over six months backpacking in Asia, Central America and Europe, and this is comfortably my greatest travel experience so far. The base of Volcan Acatenango is located…
Why we need Philosophy
Gwen Smit takes on the task of bringing philosophy back to the realms of relevance and the every day with the help of Mary Midgley and her work on arguing…
When is the perfect time to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas?
No films fit the vibe of this time of year better than Tim Burton films. Though as a child I used to be mildly terrified of his freaky animation style…
Six Crimson Cranes: an attempted fusion of cultures & fairy tales
Once upon a time, a princess, pampered and raised in the lap of luxury since birth, is exiled from her kingdom when her wicked stepmother transforms her six loving brothers…
#BoycottBigBrother: the reality show’s brush with censorship
After ten years of Big Brother on Channel 4, the reality show became a smash hit because of its raw, human, yet dramatized portrayal of a social experiment: placing sixteen…
The Swan and Three Cygnets launch EMP attack
Major disruptions across Durham on Friday night as The Swan and Three Cygnets staff commit an act of domestic terrorism.
A quick glance at the philosophy and religion of The Brothers Karamazov
Claire Manning Duignan discusses the religion in the Brothers Karamazov.
A day with Pablo Neruda
Spending the day with Pablo Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"