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The Camel Coat Story

Share Ever since the Autumn, I’ve been seeing this man. It started on a really cold morning at 5.55am. He was waiting for the same tube as I; he got off at the same stop, changed tubes, and then got off again at the same stop as me. I would always see him every time I...

Reading Between The Sheets: The Illusion of Sexual Equality in The Bedroom

Share Woman’s liberation and feminist movements have done a lot for woman’s rights, thus addressing the power imbalance between men and women. However there is at least one area, which in my opinion, still encapsulates the great power vacuum between men and women, and that is in the bedroom. What about the pill, contraception, the...
The myth of mental illness, an invention of the bourgeois class

The myth of mental illness, an invention of the bourgeois class

Share The U.K like many of its western counterparts has a Mental Health Act. This act is used to detain and treat a certain class of people involuntarily. The mentally ill are the only people of adult age in this country who do not have the right to refuse medical treatment, even when they do...

Bizarre and Beautiful: a real alternative party

Share Die Freche Muse is a London-based alternative events company who organise themed vintage parties every six weeks or so. Starting off from humble beginnings in Dalston, over the past three years they have grown in fame and popularity but remain true to their routes and have not sold out to the commercial sphere which...