London is big; it is massive. It is complex and sweaty and stressful. As someone who does not come from London, it can all seem a bit overwhelming – the tall glass buildings, the plodding traffic, the disinterested pedestrians. What is fantastic about our capital, however, is how easy it...
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The use of political satire as a form of social commentary and as a comedic art tends to fluctuate over time. Some periods are characterised by apathy and the mundane; others seem to overflow with potential for comic reflection. Arguably our own time is such an example of when the...
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I judge books by their covers. I shouldn’t, but I do. Like every other first impression– of a new house, a university, other people – we have an inevitable yet regrettable tendency to judge almost exclusively on appearance. As much as we tell ourselves that ‘it’s what’s inside that counts’,...
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