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.

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

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

Madeleine McCann: Is this Europe’s final chance for closure?

Police announced earlier this month that there is a new ‘significant’ suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. The disappearance of Madeleine McCann is a case which shocked and saddened the world. Despite the last few tumultuous months carrying a host of unprecedented significant issues, new evidence has dominated newspaper attention regarding Madeleine’s case 13 years

How is Bolsonaro leading Brazil through the Coronavirus crisis?

Since the beginning of the pandemic, before it had even arrived in Brazil, president Jair Bolsonaro always minimised the situation. He stated the new COVID-19 was ‘just a little cold’. When it finally reached Brazil he said the pandemic was a ‘fantasy’, while also claiming the disease would not affect him ‘thanks to his athletic historic’.  Across the country,

SpaceX’s First Successful Rocket Launch: What Does This Mean for The Future?

The most anticipated space mission for over a decade was a blasting success. On Saturday 30th of May at 3.22pm, for the first time in almost a decade, astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were launched into space from American soil. The Falcon 9, operated and made by Elon Musk’s private company, successfully docked to the International

If we can’t even get a haircut, how can they look after the children?

The Covid-19 outbreak has seen us face continuous lists of ‘do’s and don’ts’ from the government, with restrictions on who we see, what we do and precautions we should take. I would like to begin with a list of ‘Do nots’: Do not visit friends and families inside their homes Do not exercise using indoor