by Michael Jones | Feb 22, 2021 4:25PM | Long Reads
Life in city centres is likely to become a lot livelier after lockdown. No longer will bars and restaurants prioritise their makeshift takeaway business and cafe’s might just ask you to stay rather than leave upon serving you a drink. The list goes on. Yet one...
by Amber OConnor | Feb 22, 2021 4:18PM | Long Reads
There are certain things you would expect to find on a passenger flight: fuel, passengers and certainly a pilot, but you might be surprised to find flowers. Every year millions of flowers are flown to the United Kingdom, nestled in the cargo of commercial planes. So...
by Nuria Mateus | Feb 22, 2021 3:33PM | Long Reads
In “Wuthering Heights”, Emily Brontë wrote: “In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society”. Literature has the power to make us travel during lockdowns, even if we can only see the...
by Emily Staniforth | Feb 22, 2021 3:26PM | Long Reads
Dog thefts are estimated to have risen by 250% over the past year. Last week it was reported that the Home Secretary Priti Patel was looking to enforce stronger penalties for pet theft. However, this comes too late for thousands of owners across the UK who have lived...
by Hannah Richardson | Feb 22, 2021 2:56PM | Long Reads
“There is a loneliness in this world so great you can see it in the slow movements of the hands of a clock.” The words of Charles Bukowski, the German-American poet, have never felt as relevant as they do now, seven weeks into England’s third COVID-19 lockdown. Yet,...
by Chloe Bowen | Feb 22, 2021 2:14PM | Long Reads
For some of us the pandemic has slowed our hustle right down, leading us to question what we are meant to be doing with all this spare time. So far we have seen many lockdown trends from baking banana bread and creating TikToks, to sweaty fitness classes and doing...
