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“People were going nuts pushing each other, falling over left, right and centre.” Music fans are calling for safety concerns to be taken more seriously after events unfolded at the Astroworld festival. Calum Kent, a music business student, remembers his haunting experience at a Ghostemane concert in London back in 2019. The venue only held […]
As summer is just around the corner the subject of summer holidays is on everyone’s minds. With the covid crisis still looming in many parts of the world, it seems that holidays abroad are still just out of our reach. However, just because we can’t all travel overseas this year, doesn’t mean summer is cancelled, […]
The number of children living in poverty in the UK rises year after year, but the pandemic has revealed a whole new kind of modern day poverty. Digital poverty is where children are without access to appropriate hardware, software or reliable access to the internet. This creates a divide between kids with and without internet […]
The rise in environmental consciousness has been exponential, certainly helped by the Coronavirus pandemic. In the UK, spending over half of the year locked away in our homes has meant that as a population, we’ve generally had more time to digest our consumer habits and the affect these are having on the environment. The generational […]
Online giant, AMAZON is set to open 30 stores in the UK. The company has launched its plans to open 10 across the country but is now rumoured to open 20 more. The till-less grocery store, known as AMAZON Fresh, opened its first store outside of the US, in London, in March this year. After […]
“All in all, the worst Oscars ever, and that’s quite an accomplishment.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ scaled back pandemic version of the Oscars on Sunday, could be described as either incredibly refreshing or incredibly awkward; depending on what you thought of Glenn Close doing Da Butt, among other moments. But the […]
On Friday 23, April the controversy surrounding the renovation of the Prime Minister’s private flat located above No11 Downing Street started. It has been alleged that Boris Johnson has received a substantial donation for the renovations of his private flat, and has failed to declare it. The issue came to light following a blog post […]
Pay the Wifi bill or feed the kids? To some of us this seems like a no-brainer. Feed the kids right? But, in COVID times decisions like these are a constant conflict of parents who face the wrath of poverty. Digital Poverty isn’t something that came about the same time as COVID. With the digital […]
Boris Johnson is under pressure to explain how and when the costs were met for the refurbishment of his private flat above 11 Downing Street According to Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, the prime minister had devised a plan to have donors “secretly pay for the renovation”, which he regarded as “possibly illegal”. […]
With the pandemic going on all around us, many are locked down inside our homes, staying safe. There are, however, unsung heroes who are putting themselves at risk to keep the country moving. In this feature article, I interview Elena Page, who is a cleaner at the South Gloucestershire Council. Of course, because of the […]