Over 100,000 people in the UK have a stoma. Common for people who’ve suffered with bowel cancer, Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis or even, in some rare cases, endometriosis, a stoma is a little hole that’s made in a person’s stomach from which waste can drain into a specially designed bag. It […]
Consider the gut. Adults have around nine metres of bowel in total: the small intestine, a long, narrow tube of about seven metres and the large intestine, so called because of its wide diameter. The latter is about one and a half metres long. That is a lot of piping. […]
Thanks to the ongoing efforts of a president that decries facts as “fake news” while peddling conspiracy theories and lying more than 20,000 times since he took office, it has become increasingly more difficult to decipher the realities of the Trump administration from their carefully-curated-but-ultimately-shallow facade. And nothing embodies that […]
On Friday, New York-based designer and NYFW’s favourite Christopher John Rogers made an announcement that fans of his designs have been asking for since his very first presentation in September 2019. For the first time ever, Rogers’ new collection, which he calls 007, will be available to pre-order online on […]
Back in May, two months into lockdown, I found myself newly unemployed, broke, and depressed. I packed up my things, cleaned out my one-bedroom flat, that I shared with my pet rabbit, Covey, and moved into my childhood bedroom. At the time, I had been seeing someone for about 10 […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 21: People wear face masks while visiting the High Line park as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on October 21, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-term repercussions throughout the tourism […]
Three years ago, a new conspiracy theory emerged within the internet’s darkest recesses. Known as QAnon, this outlandish perspective of the world — which includes the claim that countless politicians and celebrities are working in secret with world governments to conceal a rampant international child sex abuse network — has […]
For travel lovers, 2020 has definitely been the year of the staycation. With international trips becoming increasingly difficult (and in some cases inadvisable), many of us have been making the most of the natural beauty and reinvigorating green spaces that the UK has to offer. As social distancing restrictions tighten across […]
We survived another heated debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, and the second matchup was somewhat more civil than the first — no doubt a consequence of moderator Kristen Welker actually keeping the candidates in line with that mute button. But no amount of effective […]
Instagram has promised to do more to prevent influencers from failing to disclose when a post is #sponcon. Facebook, which owns Instagram, is to introduce new measures designed to weed out hidden advertising following an investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) . As part of the #sponcon crackdown, […]
