Larissa Hurt

Love Island’s lack of diversity is the only thing consistent with the show.

Love Island’s first season premiered on the 7th June 2015, 11 relatively unknown islanders joined Caroline Flack and Ian Stirling in a grotty Mallorca villa along with sixty-nine cameras and unlimited alcohol. Infamous for scraps like Malia and Kady’s physical fight...

Greasy haired and grotty clothes: What to do if you hate your friend’s partner

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...

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...

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...

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 to each other anymore? Why is my sex drive so low? Why is he always ready for sex and I need about fourteen working days to even think about it? 

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 on to the floor, shaking.

When I came around I had a suspicious wet patch on my bum and I was chatting to my sister and my friends, who were sitting on the floor with me. But my speech was slurred, my balance lost and I couldn’t remember a thing I’d said or done in the past 30 minutes. One teacher had the audacity to ask my sister if I had been drinking.

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 romantic comedy. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back. But why does the boy ever win the girl back?

10 questions with an AIRBNB owner

Sarah* and her partner, holiday rental property owners in the South of Cornwall talk to us about the ups and downs of holiday rentals.

Male directors should stop writing about female icons

Uncovering male director’s innate obsession with femme fatale figures in cinema.

Having a disability as a young adult couldn’t get any worse, could it?

It is an indescribable feeling to lose minutes of your life with no control over it and no memory of it at all.

Hollywood’s Dangerous Affair with Sex and Consent

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 fueled 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 you ask? Toxic productivity.

10 questions with a primary school teacher

Julia Richards an Assistant Deputy Head in a state primary school in Coventry talks to us about the highs and lows of primary school teaching.

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 getting on the career ladder, maybe travelling far away from their parents, and getting married and start thinking about having a few spawn in the near future.

Now for us this is a supposed decade of experimenting with what you want to do with your talents, who you want to be and building a future for success.

Lost in the Political Maze: why are young people NOT voting

Westminster has since become a cesspit of broken promises and scandals, and we feel deserted on all sides of a political landscape that is indifferent to their needs, so why should we vote?

Money, money, money – how do we invest ours?

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...

General Election – How do I vote?

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...

Diary of a Hinge Date: My first steps into online dating

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

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

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

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...

Hollywood’s Dangerous Affair with Sex and Consent

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

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

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

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...