An attack on social mobility: the English government’s plans to restrict access to student loans
The Department for Education (DfE) recently set out potential plans to restrict access to government student loans in England for students who lack English and Maths GCSEs, or two A-levels…
“Fighting the Beast”: the young people suing the government over climate change
Three young people are suing the UK government for failures to act on climate change. “We refuse to witness the violations by this UK government, and refuse to be complicit…
Golden Globes: how much has the film industry changed?
It is no secret that Hollywood is not the paradise it is often idealised as, especially for women, people of colour and other minority groups. After the prominence of the…
An Interview with the Founder of Meadows Share
With over 47,000 members and averaging at about 120 posts a day, Edinburgh’s largest community Facebook group, The Meadows Share, has become a part of the daily lives of many…
Match of the day: online dating during a pandemic
This article is a part of our series Love in the Time of Corona. If you have any interesting or scandalous love, relationship, or sex stories of your own during…
The curious case of Covid deniers
As the UK became the first country in western Europe to record 3 million overall coronavirus cases, a number that is now approaching 4 million, most of us can hardly…