Police are currently investigating the deaths of two young British tourists found dead on a beach in Koh Tao, Thailand on Monday. The pair had suffered serious ...
Geordie Shore is my guilty pleasure. I’ll admit to that as I open this article. Those lads and lasses are in no way my role models, but it’s definitely my idea ...
The brilliance of How I Met Your Mother has finally been proven by science! It was really only a matter of time.
If you watch HIMYM then you will no doubt be...
Guess who’s been learning some interesting things about early modern cross-dressing recently? That’s right, it’s me! I have to say that my current essay has bee...
Firstly an apology for a rather long absence, as a Masters student I am currently looking anxiously forward to an approaching decision: to academia or not to ac...
“Fashion” used to mean to make, or shape; that is the manner and mode of things. Any etymological source can tell you such, indeed it wasn’t until the late 15th...
How to prevent acne, obesity, cancer, diabetes and live longer? Become a vegetarian. Aside from the obvious reasons regarding animal cruelty, there a myriad of ...
In the week of June 4th – June 10th 2012 the Fifty Shades of Grey “x-rated trilogy”, to quote The Daily Mail, took the top three spots of the ten best-selling a...
Now the jubilee weekend is over, people are back to work and life has returned to it’s normal pace, everything feels a bit flat. We love to celebrate holidays a...
We are bombarded with rom-coms enlisting the baby face of Leonardo Di Caprio, the gentleman, Colin Firth and the 'bad-boy' Hugh Grant. In films where the 'bad' ...
So it's finally kicked off, Euro 2012 is here and with a brief and always seemingly pointless opening ceremony, girl friends can expect to be shunned, wives ignored and TV remote controls......
You may have heard of the “Teddy Boys”, one 1950s British subculture in which a younger generation of men rejected post-war austerity by donning Edwardian dress...
Me and my friend were chatting last night about the simple 'x'. What does it really mean?
Every single one of us sends text messages some more frequent than ...
James Cameron’s melodramatic retelling of the infamous RMS Titanic voyage gets a 3D uplift for the modern age. It seems a bit dated to be doing a review of a f...
So the other week, 9th March, it was International Women’s Day. A day that I proudly supported alongside my society, Activista, through a We Are Equals open mic...
You only have to look at Wonder Woman to see she can seriously kick ass. She's a huge Amazonian who can fly, throw heavy objects and even tie you up in a lasso ...
I’d recently become single, when I stumbled luckily onto a University place. While my thoughts on Higher Education were definitely, ‘Well, it’d be rude not to…’...
The other day, around mid-afternoon, I awoke in a somewhat crumpled/contorted heap on my bathroom floor. At first I was dazed, mildly confused as to how I’d com...
The recent Wikipedia ‘blackout’ alerted something in my mind the other day. I found about the ‘blackout’ the hard way, by trying to access Wikipedia only to rea...