2020: The year of fragility and endurance
Illustrations by Hannah Robinson If 2020 has shown us anything, it has shown two things: the fragility and the endurance of the world we have created. At the end of 2019,…
‘Perfect’ skin is the province of the privileged
More than ever, foreign travel is a rich person’s game
Illustrations by Hannah Robinson Lockdown restrictions have eased, albeit in an ambiguous and haphazard manner. To what extent we are still in lockdown is unclear. Whilst we wear masks in shops…
The “new normal” – there’s no returning to the old
Illustrations by Hannah Robinson What will we keep of this lockdown experience? “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine…
Prime Minister: an Etonian birthright?
As Boris Johnson becomes the twentieth Eton-educated Prime Minister, and joins the very comfortable majority of Oxford-educated Prime Ministers, we continue to wonder what it is about these establishments that…
Is it time to abolish Oxbridge?
When I hear the word Oxbridge, the next words that come to mind are privilege and elitism. Oxford and Cambridge have a longstanding history of exclusivity, being heavily populated by…
Class drag is offensive and telling
I wasn’t really aware of the concept of class drag until my first year of university. I was at a dinner party, and the topic of benefits came up. A…
No Mimi Bouchard, negative energy isn’t what makes people poor
Scrolling down twitter this week, I came across a screenshot of a Made In Chelsea star proclaiming “YES!” to a quote which stated that poor people are only “creators of…