Some of you may be thinking, well the answer is simple: when you stand up quickly, gravity loans all your blood to your legs for a moment, and your body needs time to pump it back up to your brain. That’s why everything suddenly feels like it’s tilting, your ears ring, and your vision fades a little – your brain isn’t getting enough blood yet.
Well, it isn’t that simple.
Growing up has always been a slow, uneven process – a long journey shaped by mistakes, curiosity, boredom, and discovery. But today, that journey feels like it’s been sped up, and those memorable, offline moments, stolen. The world expects young people to be older, wiser, and more accomplished long before adulthood actually arrives. And while some take pride in being “ahead” and “mature” at an early age, there are hidden costs to a childhood cut short.
Sky Sports Halo was launched originally as Sky Sports’ “lil sis”, a safe and positive platform for female sports fans. However Halo received so much backlash that it had to be axed after just three days. With the account removed, we can question whether it was an honest attempt at trying to reach a new audience, or a way of patronising female fans.
The world mourns selectively. One victim is a name, a face, a life, whilst another is a number, a statistic, a political talking point. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, yet the world continues to weigh some deaths more heavily than others. In this article, I will examine the colonial origins of necropolitics, the hierarchy of suffering, and the impact of global governance on systematising inequality.
Conspiracy theories are a hot topic at the moment with cases such as Paloma Shemirani circulating the media once again this October. This is not a new occurrence. They have been prominent in cultures for centuries, such as Flat Earthers appearing in the late 1800s, and even dating back to Ancient Rome with rumours about the death of emperor Nero in 68 AD. Stereotypes around conspiracy theorists tend to label these individuals as uneducated or mentally unwell. However, lesser known psychological factors also tend to play a crucial role.
