I recently went to a birthday party in south London with the theme “childhood aspiration”. I wore a pink lycra leotard, thick black tights, a wrap skirt, and rubber-soled Repettos and sat on the carpeted floor to tell stories of my very lesbian
May 16 25May 16, 2025
Article at Disco Kitchen Magazine
When life began, and it began in the sea, organisms were hydrogels with hydrophilic circulatory systems, requiring perpetual wetness. We were sustained by the surrounding currents and the nutrients which percolated in.
Mar 22 25March 22, 2025
Article at Seedlings
I remembered anxiously waiting for a reply, the disappointment when it never came – and all the adventures I went on after that letdown
Jan 31 25January 31, 2025
Article at The Guardian
Café Mondo is the new permanent base after the success of Mondo Sando’s residency at Grove House Tavern in Camberwell
Dec 14 24December 14, 2024
Article at MyLondon.news
Romesh and his wife Leesa inspired the opening of a new Coughlans Bakery in his hometown of Crawley
Dec 05 24December 05, 2024
Finally, they brought him out to me, wrapped in a blanket. He looked at me when I said his name. He tilted his head at the familiar sound before licking my nose in recognition
Nov 22 24November 22, 2024
When we do ethnography–when we try to know people in general–what are we really doing? Are we cataloging their actions and beliefs? Thoughts and feelings? Kin relations?
Nov 14 24November 14, 2024
Article at CORA Journal
Our panel of undecided voters on whether their views have changed in recent weeks – and who will get their support
Jun 28 24June 28, 2024
Sure, there have been queer women in historical fiction before, but these relationships usually end up in death or disaster. Could the Netflix Regency romp change this? Season three of Bridgerton has been a solid eight hours of swoon-worthy love…
Jun 24 24June 24, 2024
Last weekend, The Saint made the long and arduous journey to the Student Publication Association National Conference (aka the biggest SPANC yet). We learnt a lot, not least that CMYK humour might have a niche audience, but this audience does indeed
Apr 06 23April 06, 2023
Article at The Saint
Editor-in-Chief Sophia Brousset reviews the iconic St Andrews Charity Oktoberfest (held, as ever, in March...) There was a palpable excitement emanating on Market Street the morning of March 11. Comparable only to the sense of impending bacchanalia…
Mar 30 23March 30, 2023
In 2014, Tumblr reached peak daily activity and I believe I contributed to a weighty portion of its traffic. This website, full of the coolest teenage girls in the world, was my haven. My clandestine account with over 100,000 followers was my diary.…
Feb 16 23February 16, 2023
University and College Union (UCU) industrial action over pay, pay equality, pensions, and workloads will commence today, November 24. The UCU has also announced further staff strikes on November 25 and 30, 2022. The UCU has also called for their…
Nov 24 22November 24, 2022
Elon Musk’s fortune is greater than the GDP of over half the world’s nations. Now, the political fate of many more may be in his hands. There is an unquestionable humour to Musk’s newfound role as “Chief Twit”. The acquisition comes off as a silly…
Nov 11 22November 11, 2022
The University Court has approved the University’s 2022-2027 Strategy, announced Principal Sally Mapstone in an email to University staff and students. The Strategy lays out five themes — World-leading, Diverse, Digital, Sustainable, and…
Nov 10 22November 10, 2022
Several prominent figures will attend the University of St Andrews’ winter graduation to receive honourary degrees. The ceremonies will take place Tuesday 19 November and St Andrew’s Day, Wednesday 30 November. Lord Alf Dubs, a Labour Peer, will also…
When Ukraine was invaded by Russia this February, Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko had to trim her fingernails, a long set she had spent years growing after an irksome nail-biting habit — not for cosmetic purposes, but to be able to operate an AK-47…
Oct 27 22October 27, 2022
By this weekend, the UK will have had two different monarchs and three different prime ministers in a greatly tumultuous eight weeks. The premiership of Liz Truss was, in a word, shambolic, not only sending the UK into internal turmoil, but thrashing…
Oct 24 22October 24, 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced this Thursday that she will resign. Only 45 days after having taken office, this marks the shortest tenure of any British prime minister. Ms Truss’s departure followed weeks of political turmoil in which her…
Oct 20 22October 20, 2022
I am an avid podcast listener — I apply my mascara each morning to the sounds of The Daily and eat my breakfast with You’re Wrong About’s Sarah Marshall voice reverberating through my earbuds. I adore the way they simultaneously feel like
Oct 12 22October 12, 2022
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