MasterChef is my idea of hell. It’s not the cameras, it’s not the pressure, it’s not even the fear of everyone discovering how middle class I really am. No, what does it for me is the thought of having five seconds left to complete a challenge that could really change my life, five seconds to […]
If you enjoy hearing straight white people talking about their relationship dilemnas, watching conventionally average men somehow attracting ‘flawless’ women, or you can appreciate such worryingly poor quality camerawork that you have reason to believe it may have been pulled straight from someone’s webcam, then oh boy, is Netflix’s Back With the Ex the show […]
Greg Serrano has a new face. Really, he does. The on and off boyfriend of Crazy Ex Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch, previously played by Santino Fontana, now bears a startling resemblance to Pitch Perfect’s Skylar Astin and fans of the show have reacted exactly as you’d expect them to. What they don’t realise is it’s not […]
The triumphant return to music and record-breaking tour aside, you can tell Taylor Swift is still scared of the internet. When she posted her support of Democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper on Instagram she had already switched off the comments and featured only a blurred polaroid that, honestly, could have been anyone. She knew […]
Content Warning: Islamophobia, Abuse, Terrorism. The finale of the dramatic BBC drama series The Bodyguard was a good hour of television. Richard Madden gets better and better and many were delighted with the surprisingly happy ending. The problem was, it was blatantly Islamophobic. There were the overt stereotypes. The most featured Muslim character in a […]
As noxious as they are, the issues around sanitary products run so much deeper than some off-colour period jokes made by men who may have never been near a woman. The Scottish Government propose to spend £5.2 million on providing free sanitary products for women – and it could not come sooner. If you aren’t […]
Parents have a right to know whether their children are suffering. From mental health issues to difficult relationships, from glandular fever to ludicrous flatmates – parents have a right to be informed and to support. However, they need to be able to step away and to take the back seat at times. University is a […]
Bad guys have accents. Didn’t you notice? Consistently in British and American film and television, the bad guys have distinctive accents or strange reptilian features, impenetrable masks or persistent facial tics. They always stand out as ‘different’ or ‘other’. Indeed, when they are actually Caucasian, more often than not they are played by an actor […]