In the halcyon days of 2014 I went to a small gig by a band used to even smaller gigs. On the recording of that gig you can hear the incredulity in their voices multiple times over the course of the evening as the crowd go wild, singing and dancing with abandon. This is a... Continue Reading →
Building Goals and NOT Living For Tomorrow
Is success just pushing through sadness and fear? Does it mean difficulty or is it on the other side? I’m ambitious, but I’m also aware that I could be a simple kind of happy if I took a good job, worked creatively, fostered the kind of environment William Morris talked about where all my things... Continue Reading →
Veganised Lemon Meringue Pie (Recipe from Sylvia Plath Society mailing list)
I spent ages veganising this recipe, can somebody please make it?
Side Hustle or Passion Project?
I think most of us have a creative project in our bottom drawer or a business idea that we’re working on alongside our conventional job if you’re an idiot like me, you may even have both, things you couldn’t choose between and keep you very busy, but which can be tabled at a time when your ‘real’ work has to be your main focus.
Studying in the age of COVID-19
This pandemic is a life-changing cultural shift, and one of the questions we ought to take from it is the purpose of education: what are people hoping to get out of their school experience?
Fuck The Dress Code
An old article from Lamp & Owl magazine.
What Does Europe Mean to Me?
Expanded from a National Geographic competition entry.
An apology to Sarah Millican.
A lesson in the dangers of social media and an acknowledgement of some personal growth that needed doing.
What Do I Want
There is a difference between ambitions, these things that we strive for and work to make happen, and wanting something to be our own or to be different. We know the difference between need vs want, but do we need to learn the difference between want and desire?
What is a good education?
1) Contact time isn’t what defines your degree as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. 2) Neither is the subject you study. 3) Neither is the institution in which you study. 4) Student loans are not sufficient for either the institution or the individual. 5) Education should only be for those who ‘deserve’ it (replace deserve with whichever word you like, they’re all there in the comments). 6) This is a crisis that is not only affecting the young and the middle-classes. 7) European degrees, or having the army pay for your degree, are not solutions. 8) We cannot institute the policy of ‘paying’ people for attainment in their degree by giving people with 1st class degrees a discount.
