Now I’m Feeling So Fly Like a G6
11th June 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock
10th June 2018
It is very difficult to accurately depict the intimacy of close female relationships. No matter the setting – all girls boarding school, home with six sisters, post-apocalyptic gang of teenage rebels – the dynamic is so specific that it is almost impossible to capture. I know I have had, and currently do have, friendships with other girls so close that it would be easy to mistake them for something more, and media that captures such a bond is a rare and beautiful thing. Amazon Prime’s 2018 adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ is an example of such a piece of media.
Teachers take GCSEs
10th June 2018
Mr Kane, Miss Eastaugh, Mr Cawsey and Mr Bristow each take a GCSE in a subject that’s not their own.
Donald Meets Kim
3rd June 2018
Why I oppose the Burka Ban
3rd June 2018
For decades there has been a strong movement growing in Europe to ban women from wearing headscarves, niqabs, and burqas, labelling them as symbols of female oppression and threats to security. Far-right nationals have gone as far as saying that the wearing of these garments is not a causal, personal choice but part of a wider attempt by political Islamism to gain support and ‘win recruits’.