Brutalism, identified by its chunky peculiarity and concrete oddity is both adored and loathed, understood and condemned. But as its national demolition is routinely being called for, an insurgence in its popularity has emerged, only to illuminate the current isolation between politics and architecture – a relationship once intrinsic to our fabric of life.
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With a combined following of over 3,000,000 on ‘the big three’, England Rugby trumps the web presence of any other team competing in the Six Nations. If you’re living, working, or studying in the UK and haven’t liked the Facebook page, it’s almost a guarantee that at least 10 of your Facebook friends have. So…
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Health anxiety affects 20% of the general population. In our fragile capitalist climate, analysing the relationship between systematic insecurity and biological insecurity may well be overdue.
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Imagine being in so much pain that you never left the house unless you had to. Now imagine you couldn’t make that pain go away. The charity Pain UK estimates that 14 million people in Britain are suffering from chronic pain, defined medically as pain persisting longer than three months. Others put that number much higher.…
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UPDATE: France’s top administrative court, the Council of State, has now overturned a ban of the Burkini in the French town Villeneuve-Loubet. This decision is expected to set a legal precedent for other French towns which have similar bans. (As reported by the Associated Press) This ruling is part of a test case that resulted…
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A petition against the Government’s decision to retrospectively change student loan agreements was debated by Parliament on 18th July. The debate was prompted by the petition receiving over 10,000 signatures, however did not result in policy change. In 2010 the Government promised that, in line with average earnings, the Student Loans repayment threshold of £21,000 would…
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In May this year, Newcastle University’s Students Union became the first SU in the UK to offer drug testing kits to its students. The kits, sold at the below-RRP price of £3, allow students to test the content of drugs purporting to be MDMA and ketamine. They are being touted as a harm-reduction focused approach to…
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Tony Blair labelled ‘the world’s worst terrorist’ by relative of British soldier killed in Iraq as Chilcot Report is released after seven-year-long wait. The UK Iraq Inquiry has found that the UK Government chose to join the 2003 US invasion of Iraq before alternative peaceful actions were fully explored. The report concluded that former UK…
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I’m all for people promoting security advice about using the internet and computers, but only when it’s good advice (obviously). So just how can one judge the quality of the suggestions given? Well you should probably listen to the experts – not currently trendy, I know. The problem is made harder, though, when it’s unclear what…
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