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Image via Wikimedia Commons. As our lives begin to plough into 2020, we begin to ponder how we would like this year to unfold......

Edward Hopper, Automat (1927) I sit in the upper corner of the lecture theatre, the exact same place every time. Left edge, close to the...

Wednesday November 13th saw the much-anticipated meeting of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Julia Gillard, launching the ‘World Questions’...

For three weeks, the BFI’s 63rd London Film Festival took place across multiple cinemas in the city, presenting some of the most exciting...

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Mummified hand from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon When I visited the Pompeii exhibition during its...

“Maybe sorry is the closest I ever got to expressing love.” Jenny Hval, via Tom Øverlie (Flickr) Ruminations on love; the ecosystem of a...

‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to...

Angela Davis returned to the Southbank Centre for International Women’s Day 2019, following her 2017 talk about gender equality in the...

For International Women’s Day 2019, The Women of The World foundation held their annual WOW Festival on March 8 and 9 at the Southbank...

Felicity Aston is the kind of person you could chat with all day – I almost did. She is warm-hearted, extremely bright, and utterly...