From an employer and HR perspective, setting a limit to the amount of instances of sickness an employee can have in a rolling year helps them to keep employees in work and reduces the number of “bogus” sick days and helps them to manage fair treatment of all employees in the workplace. But is this blanket treatment of all employees the best way to manage sickness in the workplace?
Read MoreCancel culture has stripped us of our courage to learn from each other for fear of being publicly shamed for exploring other perspectives, and as a consequence has shut down many spaces for progressive conversation.
Read More‘Criminal’ is an incredibly blanket term which assembles the likes of drug offenders, thieves, murderers and child rapists into the same category. But surely there is a spectrum to criminality that we should consider before condemning these individuals indefinitely?
Read MoreWhy am I still sitting here bemoaning the lionization of the NHS? Do they not deserve the applause? Should they not go to the front of the queue? After all, they are at the ‘coal-face’ of this pandemic, exposing themselves day in day out to this virus.
Read MoreIt would all be okay wouldn’t it? We would be back out there partying, gigging and consuming again by winter, and in the meantime we would donate, stream online, support our favourite venues and artists from our homes, and just manage, wouldn’t we?
Read MoreAnd so it was with the Bristol ‘Riot’ that took place on the 2nd April 1980 in the area of St. Pauls. I’ve placed ‘Riot’ in inverted commas because if you ask the African-Caribbean residents who were involved, they’d probably describe what happened as an ‘uprising’. According to Jagun Akinshegun, who was a teenage at the time, who said about what happened: “[a riot’ might do if it was a bar brawl or football hooliganism but it certainly does not apply to this situation.”
Read MoreYes, you read that correctly. In September 2020, artist Erik Kessels adorned the floor of a skatepark with the faces of womxn who had underwent plastic surgery and invited skaters to skate over them, slowly destroying their image in the name of art.
Read MoreFrom as long as I remember, university was sold as “the best time of your life” and a place to make “lifelong memories”. I’m sure everyone’s experience of university is different, but for me, I spent some of my worst days at university wishing that it was over.
Read MoreWant your sustainable fashion cape too? Here are 4 easy things you can do to combat the damage of fast fashion on our environment by using charity shops to shop sustainably.
Read MoreAmy Coney Barrett - Trump’s supreme court nomination - is everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn’t. It is a painful irony that one of the most revered feminist judges will be replaced with one who has a questionable record when it comes to womxn’s rights.
Read MoreLaura Bush famously said “The role of First Lady is whatever the First Lady wants it to be”. However, that is simply not the case.
Read MoreSadly, celebrities aren’t sharing their fantastic new chocolate protein powder on social media because they want to bond with you or because they’re your friend and want to let you in on a great deal they’ve found.
Read MoreI hold a large issue with defining intelligence based on memory recall. The education system is built on moulding capabilities on how to learn information for recall later on in high-pressure circumstances.
Read MoreThis is a new era of people seeking work-life balance and wanting to move away from the stressful life of the Big City – the packed train commutes, the rush-hour, the traffic jams. What is there to miss anymore?
Read MoreEvery industry has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Usually, returning to work after a holiday, annual leave or even a long weekend can have an impact on your mental health and routine, so how are we supposed to prepare to return to the 9-5 seamlessly now?
Read MoreThe beauty of being a woman as the French say, ‘of a certain age’, is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.
Read MoreVegan and cruelty-free beauty is trendier than it’s ever been. The vegan cosmetics industry is predicted to be worth $20.8 billion by 2025, with millennials acting as the driving force, according to a report by Grand View Research. Yet despite these statistics, an alarmingly large group of us still don’t go vegan or cruelty-free when it comes to pampering ourselves. But why is this?
Read MoreTabloid headlines in the last six months have painted a broad picture of malicious intent by China to spread a deadly disease globally. Examples include a headline by The Sun: “DEADLY SECRET: China ‘found coronavirus strain SEVEN YEARS ago and sent it to Wuhan lab to study but said nothing after pandemic’
Read MoreThe last twenty-nine years have been rough. So why am I so nervous to turn 30? Surely, I should be ready to turn my back on the last decade, knowing that I’m coming out of it in the best place I have ever been, for both my mental and physical health. Yet I am terrified that I’ll wake up on October 5th, a failure.
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