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Dec 37 min read

‘The Real Thing’ at the Old Vic Explained: A Play For The Times or Of Its Time?

Tom Stoppard's encrypted word games sing of an ingenious thesis on love and its different forms.

Nov 244 min read

Dating Apps And The Commodification Of Dating

How often can a moment of boredom turn into a lasting relationship? Or rather, how often have you opened a dating app in a moment of...

Oct 315 min read

'Barcelona' at the Duke of York's Review: It Doesn’t Just Sightsee, But Leaves A Permanent Mark

This is an evocative play about the past, present, and future; one word for Collins and Morte’s performances: brilliant.

Sep 13 min read

How To Get A Girl In 10 Months #1: Setting Out The Mission

I would be lying if I said that I haven’t fantasised about finding my one true love whilst on my year abroad, and I would be an even...

Oct 8, 20234 min read

No, It's Not Ghosting - The Strand's Helpful Guide To Social Media Messaging

Photo by Jason Howie via Flickr (licensed under CC BY 2.0) Have you ever heard of the term ghosting? If you haven’t, you are lucky...

Jul 20, 20204 min read

An Enquiry into Friendship

When Henry David Thoreau wrote, ‘the language of friendship is not words, but meanings’, I called pretentious bullsh*t. Literature of all...

Mar 12, 20194 min read

One woman's search for self-love by deleting Tinder-for good

While I cried on the floor of a club toilet – because a guy I had fallen in love with, just moments ago, had gone home with another girl...

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