Round seventeen of the 2025 F1 season takes us to a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan. With McLaren within touching distance of the World Constructor’s Championship, the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on September 21st looks to be a thriller.
Have you ever been in an extremely deep sleep, the softness of your mattress feeling as comfy as a cloud while the most random, incomprehensible dream fills your mind uncontrollably? But next thing you know, it’s a few days later and you’re forcing a dream about an event that occurred during the day – it no longer being a subconscious one. Well, I’m sure you have experienced this at least a few times in your life because I most certainly have. But the question that made me the most curious was: ‘why do we only dream subconsciously at certain times?’. This question popped up in my head, funnily enough, during my attempt at sleeping during the sweltering, hot UK weather. Because it seems odd that one night you’ll have such a mixed, unfathomable and sometimes quite abnormal dream and the next night your mind is blank, and no dreams fill your brain but instead are filled with forced thoughts.
So, enough contemplating and questioning, and now time for answering.
As we approach the end of the year, it feels like a good time to pause and reflect on what’s seemed like a very fast-paced last term. Upon the request of Cecilia, our excellent Editor in Chief of Unconquered Peaks, I’ve transformed my muddled reflections of the SLT’s past 8(?) weeks into a hopefully succinct yet somewhat entertaining article.
This week, I had the unreal and unforgettable opportunity to attend a panel with the Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern, the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, currently on a remarkable tour for her bestselling memoir, A Different Kind of Power. The event was proudly hosted by Wimbledon BookFest and held here at Wimbledon High School. Below are some of the topics discussed and my personal takeaways from the experience.
There are many misunderstandings circulating about the criminal justice system and the prisoners which inhabit it. For example, as a young child you may have learnt that prison makes society safer: somewhat true, but also very much not. As part of the HMP Downview partnership, which focuses on educating ourselves and others about women in the criminal justice system, we are here to help bust some of common myths about prisons.
