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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…

Poirot

Radio Four Extra has graced our ears with numerous dramatisations over the holiday period. These dramatisations have mainly focused on one of my favourite characters: the crime detective Poirot. This…

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…