The gruesome tale of Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.
Madeline Harding explores her favourite tracks from Ethel Cain's Southern Gothic album 'Preacher's Daughter'.
Culture & Arts
Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?
William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – perhaps the most well-known love story of all time. A tragic tale of young love, of intense feeling and all-consuming emotion, where the depth…
Neglecting the North: Margaret Thatcher, Rishi Sunak and the North/South divide
The Tory party conference 2023, held recently in Manchester, has stirred up frustration among many people in the north of England following Rishi Sunak’s announcement to abandon HS2. To many,…
Far from nursery rhymes: William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’
How William Blake's poems about nature and children also comment upon representations of God and criticise the government.
‘Post-brexit’ music? Dissonant music for dissonant times.
Earlier this year I was assigned a summative that asked me to examine how parts of my own personal life are related to neoliberalism. I chose to write it about…
‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’: Review
Josh Goodwin reviews the new West End production 'Moulin Rouge: The Musical'.
Drops of Hope
A short poem highlighting the fluidity of emotions, specifically during times of struggle.
‘Living in squares, loving in triangles’: the literary legacy of the Bloomsbury Group
In the elegant town houses and garden squares of Edwardian London, an eccentric circle of writers, intellectuals and artists gathered in a haze of dinner parties and entangled love affairs.…