Freedom In The Time Of Corona
It seems that NHS is planning a longterm future for its own application. Will we be ready for the ‘new normal’? Lots are the worries coming from academics and privacy experts. An app of this kind is a powerful tool that could give authorities additional surveillance powers. Something difficult to renounce. In an open letter to Google, 300 academics from around the globe expressed their worries about the jeopardisation of our privacy due to “mission creep”. This will result with “systems which would allow unprecedented surveillance of society at large” the letter said. Reflecting upon this point, Snowden described it as the creation of “the architecture of oppression”.
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The Imposter Syndrome: Faking It
Have you ever been in a situation where you find yourself singing the Sesame Street classic: one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong, can you tell which thing is not like the others?
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Slash and Burn: My Housemates from Hell
To this day, I’m still not quite sure how I survived all my housemates at university. Before going to university, I never thought I would struggle so much to understand and be understood by other people but living in a house with a bunch of psychopaths really changes your perspective. And trust me, I don’t use that word lightly.
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Knowing How To Say No to Work
We are programmed to think that if we are not constantly ready to drop everything for our employers, that we will be seen as lazy. It’s not the case. Just as your employers would not expect you to be taking personal calls or replying to emails from friends whilst being paid to do your job, they need to remember (or be subtly reminded) that you should not be doing your job when you are not being paid. It’s that simple.
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Black Joy: Healing From the Trauma
Blackness is the poetry of vulnerable masculinity and love in 2Pac’s poetry. It’s the blues, hip hop, R&B, garage, grime and sound system culture that we composed with the stories of our experiences. Its the classic 2-step we all know so well. Blackness is ‘our universe of experiences’.
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Positive Change After Covid
Covid19 has caused disruption for everyone around the world, and has created an incredibly challenging time for humankind as a whole. The deadly virus and its affects have cost us greatly, and caused much chaos. But out of chaos, comes great change.
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2020: A Plant Odyssey
Plants will gift each other whimsical books such as How Not To Kill Your Human. The verdant fields of England will extend before them… Growth can be supplemented with fertilisers, the most popular being Red Stripe which increases libido and thus guarantees increased pollination.
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Meditation: A Gift That Keeps On Giving
If we are honest with ourselves, particularly in these uncertain times, we all would say that we want more peace of mind, compassion, calmness, happiness, gratitude, intuition, relaxation, balance, courage, healing energy or to just be present with ourselves... Sounds good doesn’t it? And that’s exactly what meditation can offer.
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Glastonbury: The Good, The Bad and The Bloody Brilliant
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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A Very Unscientific Analysis of Female Desire
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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This is a Funeral for the Potentiality of my Past Selves
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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Coming Out At Work
‘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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A Return to ‘The New Normal’
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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Estella Castle, and Why Artist Residencies Shouldn’t Be About The Artist
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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In This Modern Age, Would Lolita Be Published Today?
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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How to Keep Productive for World Productivity Day
8 tips on how to stay productive - and keep you feeling fulfilled.
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The Benefits of Cannabis and Chronic Pain – Why Isn’t It Available in The UK?
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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Suicide, But Why?
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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The Fall of Edward Colston as The Fall of Imperialism’s Adoration
Many have learned more about Colston’s legacy from his tumble rather than his plinth.
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Colston: The First Domino to Fall
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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