The Study

Fancy a Master’s? Give Holland a Holler

Got a degree? Don’t want to become a real person? Perhaps you can’t even figure out how to become a real person? I have the solution. Study for a master’s. Even better than that, study for a master’s in the Netherlands. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last…

The mourning after

The Five Stages of Electoral Grief

My Broken Heart.

My heart has been broken during the past few hours. From the hope of coalition, and the power of people to the look of more cuts, more privatisation, and more strife for the British people under a tory majority. There is no response to this bar immense and consuming sadness. Silver exists, but only…

What knowledge I would like to keep with me for the rest of my life.

To know what knowledge we should keep with us for the rest of our lives, one must first answer the question: to what end is our life? To agree with the concept of Platonic forms, there are perfect versions of…

My Political Wet Dream: The Traffic Light Coalition

Having just finished watching the ‘opposition’…

Picture of the Month: April

The South-East Corner, Jerusalem by David Bomberg, 1926

Stand with your Sisters (30dpc #4)

It was as if I were 6-years-old
and watching another 4-year-old
girl, probably playing hopscotch…

Words for life

I just wanted to take this opportunity to share what is probably my favourite poem of all time. My mum first introduced this to me…

Between Beast and God

‘Base creatures, why do you forsake yourselves? Are you content to slither on your bellies, never to lift an eye to heaven? Cast off your bestial fetters! Climb Jacob’s ladder and take your place amongst the stars — for even those born of mud are gods-in-waiting…’ — Thus spake Steve.