We’ve all been there. Sat across the table from your friend's snivelling partner. The one who tells them their outfit is too slutty. Or comes back two hours late from the pub reeking of booze and tracking mud into your house. But somehow they adore them. They laugh at...
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A pint of Guinness and brain surgery: The change of my life
Ben Hickey submitted his dissertation on the 10th March, after two bottles of wine and two pints of cider at a house party. Ben moves onto a Guinness, chugs it down, and is ready for the rest of the night. Rain tipping down the dirty Nottingham street, he slips in his...
5am swims over 5 pints in the pub? Is the cold water swimming craze taking over our twenties?
An antidote to loneliness, an ego boost, and an Instagram story that makes your friends jealous. Cold water swimming has become a craze since the pandemic left people shut out of indoor pools and forced to stay with their family. Fitness influencers have flooded our...
Basic questions about your bills; saving your money, tax and the stock market
We spoke to Adrian Cooper, a previous Accountant turned Finance Director and CFO. So we’ve got money (finally), When is the best age to start saving? How do the tax brackets work? When do I pay? What the hell is an accountant? When is the best age to start saving? As...
General Election – How do I vote?
The last general election was on Thursday 12th December 2019. The British public has since been turned upside down by quarantines, self-isolations, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine are now making headlines daily. Meanwhile, most of us were still grappling with...
Body clocks and badly timed c*cks: Why you and your partner aren’t horny at the same time
All heterosexual couples have been there. A poorly timed erection poking you in the morning, whilst your bleeding out your vagina and your cramps make you feel like you're about to give birth. The guilt and isolation can follow. Are you and your partner not attracted...
National Epilepsy Week: The Brink of Adulthood lost in one moment
I had my first seizure at 17. As if foaming at the mouth and wetting myself wasn’t embarrassing enough, it happened in my sixth-form common room. Crushes, mean bullies and friends watched me collapse onto the floor, shaking. I didn't know it then, but I had epilepsy....
Diary of a Hinge Date: My first steps into online dating
My feeble first step into the world of dating apps happened at the start of the month, at the big old age of 21. I thought it was about time. And let me tell you, the first attempted date was confirmation of why it took me so long to dive into the online dating pool....
Some rom-com characters really aren’t all that
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good rom com. A comfort film after a long rainy day, or bingeing chocolate with friends, the structure of a rom-com seemingly never gets old... boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back. But why does the boy ever win the girl...
10 questions with an AIRBNB owner
How did you get into it? Me and my partner left the corporate world in London after 30 years to swim and paint, we bought a house by the sea with planning permission to rebuild a ruined barn on the land so we could get an additional income stream through AIBRNB before...
Male directors should stop writing about female icons
Dear all males, please, please leave female celebrities alone. You made them suffer enough when they were alive. There is no need to put their spirit through it as well. What if you never outgrew your childish infatuation with a celebrity, and what if you got to the...
Having a disability as a young adult couldn’t get any worse, could it?
I had my first seizure at 17. I had a disability . If foaming at the mouth and wetting myself wasn’t embarrassing enough, it happened in school. Past crushes, former bullies and friends watched me slump to the floor shaking: both my parents rushed from work and an...
Hollywood’s Dangerous Affair with Sex and Consent
Christian Grey’s ‘sexy’ domination of Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey, and Daenerys’s not-so-consensual wedding night in Game of Thrones. Vital conversations about consent and sexual violence can sometimes take a backseat whilst drama takes the wheel on our screens....
Reframing the toxic twenties
An era of social media has fuelled the fire on many toxic trends, rearing its ugly head with false body positivity and beauty filters unmistakable to the human eye. But the worst one to have in your twenties? Toxic productivity. We’ve all seen it, twenty year-olds...
10 questions with a primary school teacher
Julia Richards is an Assistant Deputy Head Teacher in a state primary school in Coventry. How did you get into it? I studied languages at university with the aim of joining international banking, and my degree took me all around travelling. After four years...
A (somewhat messy) Guide to your Twenties
Traditionally, way back when for our grandparents, the purpose of being in your twenties was to find a nice partner, buy a house, have a few kids and settle down in the outskirts of a city. Fast forward 30 odd years, for our parents, being in your twenties was about...
Lost in the Political Maze: why are young people NOT voting
The last time the public was voting in a general election was on Thursday 12th December 2019. The British public has since been turned upside down by quarantines, self-isolations, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine are now making headlines daily. Meanwhile, young...
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Money, money, money – how do we invest ours?
We spoke to Adrian Cooper, a previous Accountant turned Finance Director and CFO. So we’ve got money (finally), how do we invest it? Essentially, investing any money hoping it will be worth more than the original sum comes with its risks. That being said, all...