Unsent Letters To My Exes
If only being someone’s muse was enough. The best of friends. For seven years I held your hand like it was almost my own. Your superb kindness and loyalty was like a chain around my neck. I stayed because the thought of leaving your beautiful soul hurt me too much. How selfish of me. You deserved better than that. You should have had someone in your bed that ran like a horny badger in the night to get to your body. But really, I was stuck, my cartoon addictions and inability to say ‘I don’t think this is working’ was toxic. I didn’t like how I spoke to you. I didn’t like how I was with you. I didn’t like how I needed to drink wine every day. I didn’t like that I wanted to leave when I was sat next to you. I didn’t like that I had already left.
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Woke History: Impartiality IS Political
The problem with trying to pretend that history was neutral, something that happened without deliberate political choices, is that history happened to real people. Africans were enslaved. Jews were murdered on a horrific scale. Women were assaulted and raped. Precious objects were looted and stolen from where they were created and displayed as exotic things thousands of miles away.
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What is Happening in Ukraine and What Can You Do To Help?
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll have inevitably seen a surge in discussions surrounding Putin and Ukraine. However, if you were educated within Britain, you were probably not taught much about the context of this situation, and how it has built to the point we are at now.
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Life Lessons from a Pandemic: A Look Back
Life is for living, learning and loving, and even when times are uncertain, unstable or unprecedented, life is moving forward, lessons are being learnt, and love is carrying people through.
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Human Rights Act: How the Government's Plans for Reform Might Affect Us
The Human Rights Act passed in 1998 as an assurance that all people in the UK would be treated with dignity, equality, respect, and fairness under all public authorities. Using this as a frame of reference, the act has been an invaluable source of protection for people in the UK at their most vulnerable, ensuring individual freedoms and their welfare. In the last few months, these rights have come under attack.
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Stay In Your Lane: Why Kirstie Allsopp Probably Won’t Be Moving Up North
“Are you still watching?” Or are you shattering all your dreams of ever owning a home and would you be better off staring at a blank TV screen and listening to the sound of that extra £5.99 a month lining your pocket, bringing you one step closer to the first rung of the housing ladder?
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Boris & His Last Ditch Attempt at Popularity: Calling The End of Isolating
Johnson’s pie-in-the-sky promise of making Covid-19 untransmissible – at least that’s what I’m assuming he means by declaring that there is no need to isolate even when you are infected and infectious – is a last-ditch attempt to maintain that bump of popularity.
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Single Shaming - At What Point Can You Tell Your Nan To F*ck Off?
And they lived happily ever after…
From the day we are born, we are surrounded by the idea of love, from Prince Charming on horseback to Grandad gently placing a cup of tea next to Grandma as she watches Strictly.
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The Valentine's Special: 10 Geeky Gift Ideas For Your Nerd Partner.
Have you chosen something meaningful for your geeky and nerdy partner yet? I have come up with my top ten ideas for the best geeky gifts that I would have ever dreamed of, and if they excite me, I am sure they would also enthuse all my fellow nerdy friends out there.
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Healthcare is a Feminist Issue
Since the start of the pandemic many people have experienced a worsening of their mental health. Factors such as social isolation, a loss of support and stress at work impacted the young and the elderly alike. During this time healthcare workers experienced a high level of anxiety and stress at work and reported lower levels of wellbeing. According to research published by the University of Sheffield in 2021, distress was especially felt by nurses and female healthcare workers.
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Navigating the Other: The Cliches of Motherly Grief
Growing up as, and forever being, a girl-without-mother has become somewhat a defining character trait. This trait is malleable, and has morphed over time to represent, and be represented by, different things.
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Real Life Ghost Stories: Don't Try Telling Me They're Not Real
I am the kind of person who hears a thud in the night and automatically goes to poltergeist instead of burglar. If I need to use the loo in the wee hours of the morn (pun intended), then I try to wait until after 4am. This is because I once heard that ghosts are most likely to appear between midnight and 4 o’clock in the morning.
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The Mental Health Crisis in Midwifery and Medicine
The world of medicine is a demanding career for even the most intelligent and driven people. Long hours, little to no breaks from study and the pressure to keep up with the workload of a professional has created some very unhappy students.
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Dating Apps: Burning Society One Swipe At a Time
As like most people, I have tried some of the most popular dating apps there are and my honest opinion is that it is a waste of time that’s fulfilled by sucking people in with hope. I
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The Valentine’s Special: 10 Fantastic Facts
Ever wondered about the origins of Valentine’s Day? For the studious readers out there, you are in for a treat with this list of fantastic facts about the Lovers’ day.
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Self-Care Is A Product - So Is It Only For The Rich?
I’m not going to dispute that these items and activities don’t work for people but why have we accepted that self-care is something we can buy when, in essence, it shouldn’t be a necessity? And if self-care can be bought, who gets to be the customer?
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Things I Wish I'd Known in my Twenties
I shall attempt to advise my 20-year-old self, but it’s hard because I’m not entirely sure she wasn’t a bit of a dickhead. So, that’s the first thing I’d say: If you can look back every 5 years and think, “God, I was an idiot, wasn’t I?”, then you’re making progress.
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Grief and Magical Thinking: Escaping The Fear
My Mum often laughs about the first time I asked her what it means to die. She told my 5 year old self that it was like being at the playground when there’s too many people on the roundabout to get on. You have to wait your turn. Life, she said, is just like that.
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How To Be a Half-Decent Human Without Being Insufferable: A Guide.
Earlier that day, I’d gotten into a bit of a heated debate with a classmate. Looking back, I can’t even remember what on. I’ve always felt an intense need to be a good person and felt equally as intense guilt any time I thought I wasn’t being up to scratch. One of the ways this manifested itself was in me keeping exhaustingly up to date with any matter of social justice.
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Sacred England: A Written Wood of Celtic Trees
Millennia ago, Britons – also known as Celts – shared what is now the UK with other peoples like the Romans, Vikings, and Anglo-Saxons. Theirs was a Pagan society; spiritual lives centred on the natural world. Different bodies of water, for example, were valued for their healing properties and viewed as portals to the Otherworld.
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