Students at Manchester University have recently painted over a mural of ‘If’, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, replacing it with ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou, prompting a debate about the nature of art and if it can ever be separated from the artist. According to BBC News, the re-painting...
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Private schools have always been a contentious subject. Parents with money give their children a better education than families who can’t shell out – it’s easy to argue that it’s a blatantly unequal system. Recently, the Guardian reported that the average fee for private schools has now risen to about...
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People go to university for all kinds of reasons. Intellectual pursuit, freedom away from parents, to achieve new things, or just to get away with living on nothing but vodka and pot noodles. University is time of change, and it gives you a chance to discover more about yourself and...
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Drag queens have for decades been a vital part of the LGBTUA+ community. As an art form and a social and political statement pioneered by gay men and transgender women, drag made up a culture and community of its own, always on the cutting edge of underground art scenes and...
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Looking at recent movies like Moonlight or Carol, it can seem like we’ve come a long way since the days where an LGBT character would just serve as a punchline. But bisexuality, in particular, is still noticeably absent from the conversation when it comes to film. It’s a subject apparently...
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With the recent release and box office success of Jigsaw, the eighth movie in the Saw franchise, it seems that gore-based horror — a.k.a. ‘torture porn’ — is still alive and well as a genre. The Saw series, each film of which centres around a group of people who must...
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After ten solo albums and countless label changes, no-one could be blamed for being skeptical that Morrissey’s Low in High School would deliver anything new. While new music from the former Smiths frontman used to be met with excitement, now there’s just a general unease and a hope that it...
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