Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old Swedish climate activist is back to school after taking a year off to continue campaigning to stop global warming. On this day one year ago, Thunderg led the largest global climate strike in history, as more than 4 million people across 161 different countries went on […]
The BBC has released a new trailer for Small Axe, the eagerly-anticipated anthology series from Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Shame). Premiering on iPlayer and BBC One this autumn, the anthology series will tell five different stories set within London’s West Indian community. According to the BBC, […]
Royally (and generally) speaking, a lot has happened since Netflix dropped the third season of The Crown last year. In real life, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their royal exit — yes, Megxit only happened nine months ago — and, for only the fifth time during her 68-year reign, […]
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged on Friday to hold a Senate vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg had died just hours earlier of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. Ginsburg herself said just a few days before […]
This year has made us seriously question our lifestyle choices. With working from home continuing to be the new normal (and many of us hoping it stays that way), the idea of leaving London or another big city has never been more tempting. Even if you grew up hundreds of […]
With many of us hoping to work from home for the foreseeable future, it’s more vital than ever to find like-minded flatmates. After all, shared house horror stories are all too common. For LGBTQ+ people, finding flatmates who understand and totally support your sexuality and/or gender identity is especially important. […]
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1959 and started her legal career, women in the U.S. were essentially second-class citizens, both “protected” and contained by the paternalism enshrined in state and federal law. Ginsburg, who died on Friday at the age of 87, helped […]
We all knew of the cracks that cut through the fashion industry but the smoke and mirrors of glamour and exclusivity did a pretty decent job of concealing them – until now, of course. The pandemic has revealed not only the worst of fashion – from unfulfilled factory orders leaving […]
It’s Ryan Murphy’s world, and we’re just living in it. At least, that’s the case when it came time for Murphy to cast the Netflix series Ratched. Most of the actors in the series have already worked in the Ryan Murphyverse before, because there’s nothing he loves more than drawing […]
Jessica, 27, was hospitalised with COVID-19 in mid March after her mother fell ill. Though she has mild asthma (often triggered by hay fever), it was never something she considered life-threatening and she has no other pre-existing health conditions. Despite this, the coronavirus hit her like a ton of bricks. […]
