Peep Show Review (All Seasons)

Ummm…meet…Mark and Jer-emy The fact that an episode of a sitcom, which on paper can seem very ordinary, can end with the one liner, “Did you really have to eat the dog?” shows that peep show is certainly not an ordinary sitcom. Peep show follows the life of Mark (David Mitchell), an independent and knowledgeable

The Spread Of Covid-19 By The Homeless

Since the pandemic began and started affecting people massively, homeless people have been forgotten by many. While populations across the world applied barrier gestures, the wearing of face masks and constant hand washing, homeless people carried out their lives as if it was before the world went in lockdown. Some of them tried preventing the

Keeping up with the elections: #2020VISION

For those of you who live on a remote island where the wi-fi only works for three minutes every other month, the content of this article might come as a surprise; on the contrary, if you are at least 0,001% familiar with the absurdity of 2020, which is finding a new way to let us

Is the Conservative Party the true Grim Reaper of care homes?

Change of time, change of tone  A year ago, Boris Johnson said ‘we will fix the crisis in social care’. One year on his tone of voice is far more deceiving after talking about care homes responses to the coronavirus outbreak. ‘Too many care homes didn’t really follow procedures’, were his words which have faced criticism.

We stand as one: how hardship is shaping community

Over the past few months many of us have isolated at home while key workers have worked tirelessly to support us, the BLM movement has fought for equality, and all while facing an extremely deadly virus. Yet amidst all of this it feels as though the divides in society are being forgone for a new

The new style of Uni Life

Students used to only use the term “corona” in a light-hearted, careless manner. A noun. The drink they would have on a hot day in a beer garden, with a lime in the top. Since the last summer that they had it, the meaning has altered completely, to something unimaginably sinister. Still a noun. But

The Ignored War – How a Forgotten Yemen Looks so Different Today.

What has led Yemen to this point? The Yemen conflict is based upon an uncomfortable transition from one power to another. The president Adrabbuh Mansur Hadi struggled to deal with various problems. A separatist movement in the South, the continuing loyalty of the security personnel to the former president, corruption, unemployment and food insecurity led to a

July 4th: a key date for the UK’s lockdown

As the confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached a global amount of 10 million, many people are evidently having a hard time realising that we aren’t out of the woods yet. I’ve seen, either in person or through pictures like the one below, beaches in Italy and the UK filled with too many people, and

When They See Us Review

As a white female, it is my responsibility to educate myself on black history, culture and racial prejudices that black people experience every day as I cannot experience these myself. I thought a good place to start was to watch the docuseries When They See Us on Netflix. My mother had recommended it to me as she

How Coronavirus is Killing Minorities Uniquely

“While everyone is facing the battle against coronavirus, black people in America are still facing the battle against racism…and coronavirus”. This was a phrase I heard Trevor Noah say, for those who don’t know, Trevor Noah is a mixed South-African man who was born during the apartheid. Today he is a comedian and TV host