by Jack Williamson | Mar 8, 2021 2:35PM | Long Reads
Image by Jenny Hill on Unsplash. Like a dark cloud, boredom and sedentary routines have been hanging over us since the March 2020 lockdown. To tackle both, many people have turned to running for the first time. Inspired by extremely popular apps, Couch to 5k and...
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,...
