Here I want to give you a bit of a flavour for the models these experts use to make their decisions. Perhaps, that’ll show you that we are not entirely flying blind. There is strong scientific backing for the steps we are taking for coronavirus, and hopefully, it will be translated into a good plan (although that’s really the job for the politicians).
Read MoreI asked a doctor friend for her thoughts. She said that smear tests, and all other tests for that matter, are so much part of their daily routine that they are focussing on the task, not looking at our bits. ‘One fanny is much like another fanny,’ she cheerfully reassured me, ‘we are so busy we don’t even think about it.’
Read MoreIt would simply cease to exist if I hadn’t given up dieting and discovered Intuitive Eating, which is a philosophy that pivots on honouring your hunger and eating what you want to. I used to think my hunger was the enemy: a devious scheming bastard whose calling card was an empty Penguin wrapper and a stomach full of guilt.
Read MoreOne hour of allotted time outdoors each day? Ay there’s the rub. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil - that is, out of quarantine - no doubt we’ll think back to how much shuffling we actually got done. The question on everyone’s lips: to be or not to be a pandemic-jogger.
Read MoreI suppose it is to be expected that the older you get the more the dynamics of your friendship group change. People very rarely keep in touch with the friends they had when they were 18 or 19 when they are 30. But nobody tells you what it’s like when you’re only in your mid-20’s and you’re already losing touch with friends who you thought you’d have another few decades with.
Read MoreThere's no such thing as a normal family. Seriously… I'd seen my real mother at various intervals over the years believing her to be my oldest sister. I never knew that her other two children were my half brother and sister - I'd always thought that they were my niece and nephew.
Read MoreThis simple game is a well used tool in many therapist's box of tricks, it’s an invaluable way of seeing the world differently. A shield against the daily grind. It’s the ultimate silver lining, I find it helpful to seek it out. I may not meditate, I can’t get into yoga, but I practice positivity every single day.
Read MoreCelebrity culture. The ultimate ruse. Our most palatable form of capitalism: ultra-rich and beautiful, they make money from our idealistic obsessions, and we are constantly gagging for it.
Read MoreThe idea came about one boring evening indoors. It had been a year since we all graduated and we decided we wanted a creative project to really have fun with, something outside of our usual routine. As black Muslim women, there is an evident lack of representation, particularly in the podcast world and so it was important for us to create a platform which would be considered relatable and accessible to many like us. We wanted a platform where we could openly express our thoughts and personal experiences whilst just having fun with it
Read MoreI think it is agreed by all parties that the prodigious number of smokers in the smoking area is, in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance. Therefore, whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making smokers sound and useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Read MoreI know something is wrong, so we take my friend’s Mum car and as we walk up the hill and around the corner we see two ambulances and several police cars. I run towards the house and am stopped in my tracks by a policeman - ‘you can’t go that way you don’t want to see that’… but I am looking for Dad. ‘He’s gone’ I am told.
Read MoreWe abuse our planet like a toddler rampaging through its mother’s home, oblivious and unwilling to relent upon its mindless pleasure. This is not new. Since our dawn we have been a family fuelled by greed and competition… only now these notions hold global consequence; hunting one too many dodos has become the degradation of the foundations of planetary health, unfortunately invisible to the biggest culprits - me and you.
Read MoreThe winter sun is streaming through the window, I sit with my coffee and edit the photographs I took at last weekends’ monthly drag show. Each photograph I bring up on the screen is a reminder of the wonderful people that I get to work with, hang out with and call my friends. It’s a reminder of how far I have come
Read MoreA friend once told me she doesn’t want to go to any group gatherings anymore ‘if a bunch of motherfuckers become mathematicians when the bill comes’ … and that got me thinking.
Read MoreIt is too easy in these modern times to cruise the internet’s infinite avenues of information; to scroll, and tap, and swipe; to fall victim to endless rabbit holes that produce more questions than answers: what to watch? What to read? What podcast to listen to?
Read MoreMany of my friends have become vegetarian or vegan recently, often for environmental reasons. “We watched the new BBC documentary on how bad meat is for the environment” is a phrase I’ve heard many times. Personally, I am not convinced
Read MoreIn 2018 she tried to take her own life after experiencing a breakdown at Law School in Bristol. Today, Loo is truly shining as much light as possible on this important societal issue.
Read MoreIt’s the neon mesh dress you bought on ASOS for a fiver and puked on at the club. It’s the crop top you bought on a whim from Zara and promptly relocated to the depths of your wardrobe after it destroyed your armpit skin on holiday. It’s the wearable equivalent to a boy that sends you 3am ‘you up?’ texts. We need to break up with fast fashion, Bravo says – and I tell you what, I’m ready to do some dumping.
Read MoreIn the World After Corona - that glimmering, nebulous term, like a utopia - having been forced to converse via webcam rather than in bars and restaurants, I predict that the allure of the web will not be as strong. Sight will no longer be filtered through pixels. To see for oneself a mountain, to climb and taste sweat and smell soil and rain and earth and feel alive will be a stronger drug.
Read MoreDuring this time I have been questioning – have I really recovered from my eating disorder? Particularly in the last few days, my mind has been subject to ever-pervading thoughts of food, bad body image and anxiety surrounding food, something I have managed successfully now for the last five years or so.
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