Category: Features


  • TikTok… times are changing for politics on social media platforms.

    How does social media impact our relationship with the political sphere? The alternative nature of social media compared to manufactured and regulated broadsheets/tabloids gives it a higher range of motion. It’s accessible yet more polarised online than ever. Despite being considered an alternative media source, it has become mainstream: Ofcom reported that “Social media is […]

  • What I loved about George Daniel and Charli XCX’s wedding.

    Let me set the scene for you, I had just turned 20 and for our birthdays my sibling and I received tickets to see Charli XCX. As a No.1 “angel” and fan of the ‘Vroom Vroom’ singer, I had the time of my life. When the song ‘Apple’ played, the whole crowd danced in unison […]

  • You Motherclucker: Fried Chicken in Films and Television

    Robert Pratley looks at the impact of the South’s best export in film and TV

  • TV Gone Too Soon… Julie and the Phantoms (2020)

    Megan Eynon-Daly wants Netflix to revive ‘Julie and the Phantoms’!

  • Fictional Worlds I’d Like to Live In: Pokémon X and Y’s Kalos Region

    Megan Eynon-Daly would love to live in Pokémon’s Kalos region!

  • TV Gone Too Soon… The Button (2018)

    Rosie Spurrier wants the BBC to revive Alex Horne’s ‘The Button’.

  • TV Gone Too Soon… The Society (2019)

    Holly Allwright wants ‘The Society’ to return!

  • Fictional Worlds I’d Like to Live In: Animal Crossing

    Megan Eynon-Daly would love to live in the highly customisable world of Animal Crossing!

  • My Summer Comfort TV Series: Desperate Housewives

    Rosie Spurrier affirms why ‘Desperate Housewives’ is the perfect summer comfort TV show.

  • The Best Beach Reads for Your Summer: ‘The Love Hypothesis’ by Ali Hazelwood

    Jasmine Kelly’s beach reading essential.

  • The Best Beach Reads for Your Summer: ‘On the Island’ by Tracey Garvis Graves

    Rosie Spurrier sees Tracey Garvis Graves’ ‘On the Island’ as a beach reading essential this summer.

  • TV Gone Too Soon… Crashing (2016)

    Erin Child wants Channel 4’s ‘Crashing’ to return!

  • Our Favourite Female Characters: Catherine Carwood of ‘Happy Valley’

    Across all three seasons of modern BBC classic ‘Happy Valley’, Catherine Cawood is a female character who consistently appears strikingly realistic. Strong-willed, sweary, and blindingly loyal, Catherine is a woman who constantly battles with a deep, personal trauma but never strays from doing what is right. Between her neon green battle armour or donning her […]

  • Our Favourite Female Characters: Maeve Wiley of ‘Sex Education’

    Maeve Wiley is introduced in the Netflix original show ‘Sex Education’ with a, let’s say, interesting nickname. She is portrayed as a ‘bad girl’, with blonde hair with pink dip-dyed ends, a nose ring and a tendency to wear fishnet tights. She immediately shuts down snide comments from her classmates with sharp-tongued sarcasm and keeps […]