“Do your best to live life right” This is a phrase that I have been repeating to myself for the last few years and have found it to be helpful in recentering my mindset and framing my outlook on life. Read more
I’m tired of the word lockdown. It’s a word that has taken a strangle hold on global consciousness, becoming ubiquitous and finding its way into every text, facetime, and mask to mask conversation. Amongst the most used words of 2020, Read more
With a new lockdown being introduced in the UK and many other countries still under stringent coronavirus restrictions, the virus, almost a year later, is still playing a major and significant role in our day to day lives. It has Read more
The Wretched of the Earth is a significant and important piece of revolutionary literature written by Frantz Fanon and published in 1961. The book analyses the significant roles that race, class, and violence play in acquiring freedom. In ‘The Wretched Read more
2020 has been a tough year all round and has impacted people in various ways across the globe. From widespread unemployment, to the Beirut explosion, to one of the biggest civil rights movements occurring throughout the world off the back Read more
The Urban Heat Island effect is a major climatological phenomenon that impacts cities and communities all over the world. As a result, there are many mitigation methods and strategies that have been devised in order to combat its effects. Mitigation Read more
Have you ever wondered why it’s so much warmer when you visit your family in the city vs when you visit family out in the countryside? Cities have been getting warmer and warmer as the years have gone by. This Read more
Going about your daily life you rarely stop to consider how the food you eat impacts the environment and the world around you. The impact of your food consumption can be described using your personal carbon footprint. What is carbon Read more
“While colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not…The official apparatus might have been removed, but the political, economic, and cultural links established by colonial domination still remain with some alterations” [1] The colonial Read more