At the end of last year, the Year 13 RS and Psychology classes went on a trip to the Freud Museum – the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst.

Fashion has long been a means of self-expression, but it’s also becoming a powerful tool for social and political activism. In recent years, the fashion industry has seen a surge in designers and brands using their platforms to raise awareness about important issues, from gender equality and racial justice to environmental sustainability and LGBTQIA+ rights.

Credit to Mrs Irvine who has opened me up to this wonderful world. I should be revising for my end of years but instead I’m doing this, thank you Mrs Irvine.

On the 16th January 2024, Buckingham Palace released a statement that Catherine, Princess of Wales, had undergone a planned abdominal surgery, and that the Princess herself was going to be recovering out of the public eye until Easter. However, despite the princess acting much as this original statement detailed, the internet, news outlets and people across the globe seem apparently obsessed with discovering the ‘true’ reason for Kate’s ‘disappearance’ – only exacerbated by an incident of dodgy photoshop.

‘Cutting the Mona Lisa in half’ is how Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the Elgin Marbles being housed in the British Museum (away from the Parthenon from which they were taken). His comment was made towards the end of November 2023 during Mitsotakis’ trip to the UK. Soon after, a dispute broke out between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Mitsotakis as a result of the comment. Sunak subsequently refused to attend a planned meeting for the two, leading to much confusion over why he was taking such a hard stance on the matter.