It is true that there has never been a better time to be born female. The difficulty is, I struggle to declare this statement with beaming enthusiasm or infinite optimism. It is simply a matter of fact that, for women worldwide and in the UK, things have been a lot worse. The work done and […]
On Friday, MPs will be able to support a Bill to bring the voting age down to sixteen, which has opened a dialogue on whether or not such young people are politically engaged or informed enough to vote. By sixteen, although not a fully fledged ‘adult’, the government already expects you to have made some […]
Like many, if not all universities across the UK, Edinburgh is facing a campus crisis. The cry for better mental health services is louder than ever, as the number of students struggling with mental illness continues to rise. While it is certainly a positive thing in that the stigma around mental illness is slowly diminishing, […]
With phrases such as ‘fake news’ gradually seeping into popular culture, it seems that instead of delegitimising controversial politicians we are actually giving them and their actions the go ahead. A prime example of this is Sean Spicer, a man who was once referred to as the ‘modern day Goebbles’, but recently became a source […]