In the UK over 90% of people are born in the NHS and will go to be treated in its hospitals, whenever they need to, for the rest of their lives. Since its launch in 1948, the NHS has grown to become the world’s largest publicly funded health service and one of the world’s largest … Continue reading
I was always quite quiet when I was a young kid. Riddled with fear, I remember taking naps in the Head Mistresses office of infant school, she could see I was a highly stressed child. The anxiety of academia was just too much. I sat on a table in my first year of school with … Continue reading
9 times out of 10 I despair at our society’s obsession with youth. I’m pro age, I like seeking advice from older people and enjoy learning through the eyes of the mature. From popstars, reality stars to models, there are so many young people we give so much attention to. But over the past year … Continue reading
Marks and Spencer’s have always supported British tradition, they are this country’s most well-known high street brand and are the very epitome of our countries conservative middle classes. From their championing of royals to Tory support, you’d be right to raise an eye brow when finding out that the company is being criticised for putting … Continue reading
It’s Sunday morning and Euston station is bustling with people waiting for their train’s home to the North. I catch up with one such visitor to the capital over a cuppa and a spot of people watching. Having not seen Sam for ten years I’m not sure what to expect, I know he’s been studying … Continue reading
A couple of years ago I was a bit unhappy. I’d been working in a job for a while and was feeling frustrated with my career and found myself with a colleague pouring out my heart “The problem with you is that you’ve got too much pride”, he told me whilst I sobbed with frustration. … Continue reading
A few years back Lilly Allen was on the popular quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. A fellow contestant questioned Lil on the swear words in her album. Her daughter wanted the record but she wouldn’t buy it for her due to the foal language. Lilly’s reply was something along the lines of “I didn’t … Continue reading
If your Stef Simpson there is only two ways to categorise things in your life, things you can’t be doing with and the things you can. Catching up over a picnic on a warm summers evening stretched out on Clapham Common, I discovered how her no nonsense attitude has brought her through some testing times. … Continue reading
The other morning, I was cycling round the Elephant and Castle roundabout, I looked up at the billboard of our hero David Beckham. A man more famous than he could have ever dreamed, so famous in fact that he is advertising Sky TV (ok maybe not a career high for him). Firstly I was a … Continue reading
The latest craze of social speculation and influx of statistics falls upon the heads of young adults, the twenty something’s. The rumour is that we’re all miserable and disappointing our potential; financially, romantically and in our careers. The idea that we now enter a second childhood in our twenties leaves me feeling both offended and … Continue reading
Embracing wild time from step one
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