How are you going to socialise and meet friends with imposed social distancing, cancelled events and online learning?
Covid-19: Household mixing banned in Leeds
New restrictions will be enforced at midnight tonight, impacting 780,000 people in the Leeds area. Those living in Leeds are not to meet people you do not live with, inside a private home or garden […]
Study Abroad at Home: The Solution to Isolation
In this week’s article Siobhan discusses how she’s still managing to enjoy herself in England, and gives her advice on how to preoccupy yourself while in isolation.
A-Levels 2020: Derailed by a mutant algorithm
How did the government get A-Levels so wrong?
Keep Calm and Carry On: How to enjoy nights out safely
If you were given £10,000 to stay indoors for longer, to not attend or host house parties and to socialise with strangers as infrequently as possible, would you comply? Would you give up raves, house […]
Coronavirus and the OCD Crisis
COVID-19 has triggered feelings of doubt, panic, and despair across the globe; but for the 1-2% of the UK with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), the present circumstances are especially unsettling.
From Shielding to Student Life: a Student’s Perspective
Emma Ferguson describes her experience of shielding and offers her advice for vulnerable students.
‘Students4globalcovidaid’: A Call-Out to Leeds Students
2020 has catapulted us out of what we once deemed ‘normality’. With the arrival of a new decade came the transformation of our domestic and global landscapes: economically, socially and politically. Yes, of course, we […]
Don’t be selfish: continue social distancing
Since Boris Johnson has announced that the number of people allowed to meet during lockdown increased to six, I have noticed an increasing number of people breaking rules which for months have been repeated through […]
COVID-19 and student debt: Is the system broken?
Money is a paradox for students. We are the subject of student discount but extortionate tuition fees. Thankfully there are loans to cover them. Like a safety blanket at the bottom of a 9,250-foot drop. […]
Has the media been powerless this lockdown?
In normal times, a crisis or a major protest would thrill the press. Commentators would happily write, talk and saturate us with an issue before moving on to the next fresh controversy. Now, however, journalists […]
And Society Will Rebuild Itself Upon a Face Mask
The face mask has transcended what it used to be and has become the axis on which everything turns. There isn’t one mouth of society that a face mask doesn’t cover: politics, charity, glory, fashion, […]