directed by Agnes Palmer
Night Walking: Film Studies Project
3rd October 2025
Charities Visit to Everyone’s Invited
2nd October 2025
Last week a group of us had the chance to visit the office of Everyone’s Invited (the Middle School charity). During our time there we were able to learn more about the charity, its foundations and the valuable work it has achieved.
How do we get temporary hearing loss from festivals/headphones?
2nd October 2025
Not everyone is a festival or concert kind of person, but after this summer, I have found that I definitely am. After listening to the Wallows on the first day of Reading, I experienced temporary hearing loss, as did all my friends while we were walking away from the stage. Everything sounded muffled, and I also appeared to be shouting at a very high volume just to be heard by my friends and just to hear my own voice, while at the same time, receiving weird looks from people walking around me.
Should politicians be punished for lying?
2nd October 2025
Politicians lie. In other news, the sky is blue, and water is wet.
Lying in politics isn’t new, it’s expected. In fact, as Ralph Keyes wrote in The Post-Truth Era (2004), we live in a time where deception has become routine, not just among politicians but within the public itself. From Lenin’s infamous mantra, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth,” to Nixon’s refutation of Watergate, to Bill Clinton’s carefully crafted denial about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, the list goes on. Deception has always been a tool of power. It wins elections. It maintains control.
Kitty Ramsay: Spanish Civil War Hero, Political Trailblazer, and WHS alumna
26th September 2025
As students at this school, we rarely pause to reflect on the remarkable women who have walked these halls before us and the enduring legacy they have left on WHS and the wider world. To honour these women, we are launching a series of articles celebrating some of WHS’s most impactful alumnae and there is no better way to begin than by sharing the story of Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl: a pioneering politician and hero of the Spanish Civil War. The timing is especially fitting, as a new biography, ‘Red Duchess: Kitty Atholl, A Rebel in Westminster’ by Amy Gray, has just been released. Read on to discover more about her extraordinary political career, activism, and lasting influence on WHS.