Have a flick through this week’s top stories, curated by Antonia Beevor
Top stories: 15th October
15th October 2021
The Fuel Crisis: Our Calling to go Electric
15th October 2021
The ongoing fuel crisis has aroused many consequences, such as being the push for people to buy an electric vehicle, or more wild ones such as instating panic buying in the British public. As this isn’t the only fossil fuel crisis happening, it’s been brought to the nation’s attention that we must take action and change our reliance on fossil fuels.
How does FOMO affect our generation’s sleep schedules?
15th October 2021
FOMO, or ‘Fear of Missing Out’, is very much a prevalent phenomenon within our social, digitalised, high-schooler age group, and is defined as the ‘anxiety felt by an individual when it seems that others are having rewarding experiences without us’. It’s becoming more and more challenging to be able to be autonomous in your activities, without being influenced, directly or indirectly, by peer pressure, our environment, and the media; however, is this socially orientated lifestyle forcing us into the wrong kinds of habits and putting our health (physical and mental) at risk?
A review of David Hockney’s Arrival of Spring.
15th October 2021
I’m sure we all remember Spring of 2020 to be an idyllic time. Although, certainly, no-one enjoyed it more than David Hockney, who spent it in his beautiful countryside residence in Normandy and recorded its arrival on his iPad. His ‘iPad paintings’, as he calls them, were exhibited at the RA this year. The exhibition was a thorough record of the passage of the 2020 Spring in Normandy, with a helpful visual aid of each cloud, pond and grass that crossed Hockney’s path. I was not actually going to see this exhibition until recently when in September, the ground a sludge of dead leaves and wet slugs, off I went to celebrate the Arrival of Spring.
A guide to urban foraging
15th October 2021
As cliché as it may sound, I’ve never really considered myself a ‘city girl’. Before moving to London, I lived in very rural areas, giving me an intense appreciation for the wonders of the natural world. I love the (albeit romanticised and unrealistic) concept of ‘living off the land’ and have always been fascinated by the practical uses and applications of wild plants. Despite living in London, one of the most urban areas in Britain, I try to nurture this interest of mine, primarily through foraging.