Marjolaine Marsile looks at why you might be finding it hard to concentrate after coming out of lockdown and what this means for our watching habits.
Digesting Obesity: Another Tale of the Government’s Mixed Messages
As the number of days spent in quarantine increased, for many of us, the number on the scale did too. Trapped in our homes, flats or even just bedrooms, we spent several weeks gorging away […]
Queen of Quarantine: A review of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco #6
Amid the monotonous day-to-day slog of this international pandemic is a sequined beacon of hope. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, everyone’s favourite posh pop princess, has blessed us with a myriad of glossy floorfillers since the turn of […]
In the Quarantine Age, No One is Doing It Like Drag Queens
It’s no surprise that with the country on lockdown, people have turned to the arts to pass the time and provide comfort. From the legendary Tiger King, Dua Lipa’s modern classic Future Nostalgia, and even […]
COVID-19 is no deterrent for paparazzi
This long Easter Weekend has been a bombardment of messaging instructing the ‘masses’ of the necessity of staying home. This is a necessary, if not somewhat condescending, message to the vast majority of people abiding […]
Has COVID-19 ushered in the epoch of data surveillance?
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” -George Orwell, 1984 The obvious lesson that has emerged so far in what are the early […]
‘Houseparty Hack’: Viral misinformation is eroding public trust in technology
COVID-19 has decimated industries, devasted educational institutions, and butchered many small businesses. However, new technology has, again, profited, which is a recurring theme of the past few decades. As social media has risen as an […]