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Posh: A review
Rating - ***** Upon hearing that a play called Posh was being put on by Edinburgh students I was apprehensive, thinking Edinburgh —...
Jasmine Owen-Moulding
Nov 17, 20223 min read
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Tranquility
Many are those who, straining to be heard above the throbbing dub of the local coffee shop, insist that they work better with music, and...
Charlie Barber
Nov 16, 20224 min read
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Vulnerable woman: Everyday normality in Egypt
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq A country advancing politically, economically and even socially, Egypt has been celebrated for moving...
Amy Walker
Nov 14, 20225 min read
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Turn on, tune in, log out
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Like’ it or not, social media is reshaping our brains. In more ways than one, the internet influences...
Hermione Byron
Nov 10, 20224 min read
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Beyond the generational battlefield: changing portrayals of older people through activism
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Homeowners. Renters. Xenophobic. Cosmopolitan.Pension. Precarity. Conservative. Progressive....
Verity Limond
Nov 9, 20224 min read
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A Song for Laika
A while ago, in the back of a bar in Madrid, a friend once asked me which, out of all of God’s creatures who ever walked this earth, I...
Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Nov 6, 20226 min read
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Less Is More – Great Wealth Taxations and the Guaranteed Income
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq If a multi-millionaire stockbroker is in receipt of the same guaranteed income as a part-time bartender...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 31, 20224 min read
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the egg
a horse rolls its eyes in me nervous whites reflecting windows held ajar by splintered blocks eyelash trembling tempting my hunger...
Flora Leask
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Casas de nación (Houses of nation)
Casas de nación Casa de palabras: mátame. Casa de imágenes: acógeme. En este mundo de casa y casas, ¿dónde quedó la casa de aquél? ¿Qué...
Julián Camilo Corzo Ochoa
Oct 25, 20221 min read
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A coerced narrative
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq “I often find narrative and storytelling to be helpful.” (Margaret Akers, Life Society Meeting, Mon 17th,...
Grace Murray
Oct 25, 20223 min read
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This is not a Financial Crisis —This is a crisis of economics
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq We are amid a crisis of economics. To make the first step towards understanding the crisis of our time,...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 17, 20224 min read
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The Conservative Party is a Libertarian Party
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq What is a conservative? We use such a great deal of terminology in British politics that one doesn’t...
Owen Thomas Webb
Oct 10, 20224 min read
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Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
The vans travelled alone, materializing in back alleys and underneath streetlamps, when the funeral shroud of night had been drawn over...
Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Sep 28, 202211 min read
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2 Poems
A poem— even with the prettiest words i couldn’t describe you the way you should be. Feeling Blue— I want words to come out of my mouth...
Kailasha Wagemans
Sep 28, 20221 min read
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Breakfast at Nine & If I saw her with the ginger man I'd remember
Breakfast at Nine Saliva dominates, Her salt washed skin brushes the beads of bubbles Glistening between my hairs, She moans — the type...
Priya Basra
Sep 14, 20221 min read
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The role of period tracking apps under the USA’s new abortion laws
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
Sorcha Tipping
Sep 12, 20225 min read
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“I am not a beauty for you”: Russia’s use of sexual violence as a weapon of war against Ukraine
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Across the Ukrainian city of Lviv, red posters and billboards have appeared depicting a woman standing...
Manon Jenkins
Aug 8, 20223 min read
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A Game of Two Halves: Football and Male Mental Health
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Kenny Shiels, manager of Northern Ireland’s national women’s football team, recently drew controversy...
Rosie Harrison
Jul 28, 20224 min read
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Mixed signals: why strikes are the least of the railway’s problems
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The die is cast. Today, and on Saturday, railway workers across Britain will strike. Three unions will be...
Sam Stevens
Jul 27, 20224 min read
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America, Anti-Choicers, and Bodily Autonomy
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq This article is part of The Broad's short series in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to...
Alex Orr
Jul 27, 20224 min read
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