Glastonbury. That one word, for so many people, triggers a firework display of thoughts and memories - the good, the bad and the bloody brilliant.
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Last summer, I was sat with a friend in a cute little coffee shop in South East London when she announced, ‘yesterday, when I was out with my group of guy friends, one of them bragged that he rubbed this girl’s clit so hard that it fell off and she loved it’.
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Every choice I make kills a potential future…Some of these future selves are trivial duplicities, undistinguishable from my current self, but others are wildly different. They deserve a proper burial and a proper wake.
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‘Miss? Have you got a boyfriend?’
A question I have been asked countless times whilst working as an education agency supply teacher.
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It’s been two months of lockdown. I have never in 26 years of life gone through a crisis that mirrors this pandemic. I am still not sure I understand what is going on, two months in. A lot of things that I once took for granted, now seem obsolete.
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An Arts Council England grant of nearly £50,000 can be game changing if wisely invested. After securing this prize for their upcoming 'Egham Visions: Changes in Time and Perception', Egham Museum have chosen to spend it on New Zealand born artist Estella Castle. Could a non-local artist threaten to turn the museum's focus away from the local community which has always supported it?
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We as readers are asked to decide ‘Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?’.
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8 tips on how to stay productive - and keep you feeling fulfilled.
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I am filled with a longing and hope, that one day, maybe in my lifetime this will be available for me to try at home. That it will be a regulated system, that there will be no fear of criminalisation, of who has made this product, hell, maybe you’ll even be allowed to grow your own! One day, I hope that this will be the case, so I no longer watch the benefits from across the ocean and can openly experience them myself, in a legal, supportive environment.
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When most people my age were thinking about the song they wanted played as their first dance on their wedding day, I spent my time thinking about what song I wanted to be played at my funeral.
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Many have learned more about Colston’s legacy from his tumble rather than his plinth.
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A statue signifies a celebration and is a way of creating a legacy, but certain historical figures do not deserve to be remembered not valorised, despite their impacts in the world. We all love a statue, just not one of an imperialist slave trader.
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For the first time in our lives, we are experiencing the same devastating, bizarre sequence of events simultaneously. Yes, coronavirus is affecting us all in different strengths and volumes, but we can each immediately understand one another’s thought process. It has released a heightened sense of empathy.
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If I am completely honest, I was petrified by the thought of this. I was a 20-year-old girl at University, studying a subject utterly unrelated to the music industry, and with no business qualifications. I was definitely ‘unqualified’. But there I was, and there was no turning back.
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There are various creative ways of using home space to satisfy an urge to garden, also known to be greatly beneficial to our mental health. Using wall space to grow climbing plants, sewing seeds in trays on a windowsill, growing indoor plants and creating terrariums: mini ecosystems in a fish bowl, are all simple ways to green up an environment and activate our intrinsic instinct to nurture, without any outdoor space.
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Has lockdown got you dreaming of an epic continent spanning adventure? Maybe you’re longing for sandy beaches, sky scraping mountains or cities steeped in rich cultural history. Though these places may seem impossibly out of reach right now they’re actually right at your fingertips, and you can go there with your friends right now.
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Now, about me… My name is Rita. I am white and Polish. I come from a country that is racist, sexist, homo- bi- and transphobic and ableist and I, despite efforts, am all of these things, too.
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And so just as a calf demands milk, a statue of a slaver demands to be toppled or graffitied or scrawled on by the hands of those it (and more importantly the legacy it represents) makes an absence of
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At last, after years of asking nicely, the people of Bristol took the situation into their own hands, rectifying some of our wrongs; they said enough is enough, we will create our own history. They turned the statue’s very existence into an act of rebellion that should be remembered for years to come.
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Every country and their cities have their own cultural and political leanings on a whole bunch of things; religion, food, work, you name it…Though one thing you might not think about every day yet still causes a lot of controversy is --- drugs.
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