New year, new you? How to keep your resolutions
I, perhaps like you, used to be sceptical of New Year’s resolutions, a bit of a new-years-resolution critic. You can see my reasoning for it: does anybody ever even keep…
Miss Piggy UK Visits… Meltmongers
Struggling with post-holiday January blues? Not to mention, Scotland’s Baltic weather conditions? Well thank cheesus for Edinburgh’s newest eatery, Meltmongers. Located on the edge of Bruntsfield Links, Meltmongers have been…
Non-vegan ‘animal lovers’ are hypocritical
The Animal Lover’s Dilemma: if a group of 100 people were hypothetically surveyed, I predict that a large majority of them would answer “yes” (perhaps tentatively, perhaps confidently) to the…
Corbyn’s reshuffle was necessary – not a revenge ploy
Reshuffles are as much a feature of the British political landscape as Prime Minister’s Questions or dodgy jokes made by MPs in the run up to elections. They usually generate…
Doctor Who: A Series in Retrospect
Something I have noticed at university is that being a Doctor Who fan is strikingly more niche than I had imagined. For me, Doctor Who is a source of our…
Mitchell on Manners
In this Radio Four mini-series, David Mitchell examines how the concept of manners emerged and evolved through time, and their relevance and/or redundancy in the world of today. He considers…
Reflecting on my semester abroad: Montpellier
Before going on my year abroad (Erasmus in Montpellier, France) I was constantly told that it would be the best year of my life. The university painted images of international…