How Coronavirus Stitched Up the Fashion Industry Fashion trends are known to come and go, generally operating on a 15-year cycle. Ever since women were allowed to have jobs we’ve had workwear, casualwear, and clothes for going out-out. But then in 2020, something unusual happened. Our need for office-appropriate attire went out of the window … Continue reading The Year of the Cardigan
I realised a major life goal by finishing my 80,000-word manuscript in 2020 If you asked my ten-year-old self what she wanted to be when she was older, she would’ve answered without hesitation: “I want to be an author.” Reader, let me tell you, my younger self would be proud because as of the 3 … Continue reading How I Managed to Write a Novel Alongside a Full-Time Job
Taylor Swift’s new album folklore is about the invisible strings that that tie us together and the stories that make us who we are today. There are two things that the Covid-19 pandemic has given us this summer: lots more time inside to curl up with a book, and ample opportunity to reflect on the ghosts of girlfriends … Continue reading Album Review: folklore // Taylor Swift
This piece was originally published on The Indiependent She’s met President Obama and been featured in WIRED magazine, but who is Kate Reed and how does her work fuse man, machine and nature? As we all know, technology influences our behaviour and actions nearly every second of the day. Many believe that because of Moore’s … Continue reading Meet Kate Reed: the 22-Year-Old Designer Creating Biomimetic Wearable Computers
This article was originally published on The Indiependent A lot has happened since Happyness released their 2017 sophomore album, Write In. The band has parted ways with founding member, Benji Compston, and drummer Ash Kenazi has adopted a drag queen alter ego after coming out as gay. Their new record, Floatr, released on 1 May via Infinit Suds, is a … Continue reading Album Review: Floatr // Happyness
This interview was originally published on The Indiependent Gabby Heneghan, 26, and Calum Henderson, 28, live with two-year-old cockapoo Bilston on their recently renovated houseboat, and are currently moored in London’s Little Venice during lockdown. Gabby is from Carlisle, Cumbria, and works as a team coordinator for the charity Save the Children’s Humanitarian Public Health team; … Continue reading Crew Love: Meet the Couple Living on Their Recently Renovated Houseboat During Lockdown
Tuesday 7 April marks the 250th anniversary since the birth of William Wordsworth. In our current climate of self-isolation, I found it interesting to return to an essay I wrote as an undergraduate about solitude in his poems... We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But therefore come in the end despondency and madness … Continue reading Reflections on Wordsworth and Solitude
Despite the threat to their businesses, independent retailers have applauded Marks & Spencer’s extension of the eco-friendly ‘Fill Your Own' scheme to a Manchester store. Consumers can reduce their plastic use by refilling containers with Fill Your Own products including basmati rice, milk chocolate raisins and Fiorelli pasta from Marks & Spencer’s St Mary’s Gate … Continue reading Does ‘every little help’ or are supermarket refill schemes just a drop in the ocean?
Warner Bros. deal with Cinelytic could change the future of cinema In Q3 2019 Warner Bros. revenues were $3.3 billion, down 10.4% YOY due to declines in theatrical and television revenues. The AT&T Q3 2019 Investor Briefing suggested this decrease was primarily due to a mix of releases, as the same quarter the year before included The Meg, The … Continue reading Could Machine Learning Guarantee Box Office Success?
If you want to stand out as a writer, you should learn too I have an English Literature degree from Oxford University, and I am an NCTJ-accredited journalist. I am a fundamentally word-oriented individual, and it’s fair to say that maths bamboozles me. And yet, I am teaching myself to code using the excellent online tutorials … Continue reading I Suck At Maths But I’m Learning To Code
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