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Top 25 Albums of 2024
25. Mk.gee- Two Star & The Dream Police Distinctively grainy and hard to put in a box, this is the album that introduced me to the music of Mk.gee and his intoxicating blend of genres. Soulful and distorted, Two Star & The Dream Police delivers tune after tune that will get stuck in your head…
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Book Club- ‘Stoner’
Seeing plenty of rave reviews piqued my interest in this novel and I went into John William’s ‘Stoner’ with high expectations and, suffice to say, it did not disappoint. This is the book that finally stirred me from my avoidance of writing since moving to Glasgow based purely on the simplistic beauty of Williams’ prose.…
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Movie Mondays: Aftersun
Few movies do so much with so little as Aftersun. In the modern age of filmmaking where projects like Avatar 2 can cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make Aftersun is very much on the other end of the spectrum, relying on two excellent performances and an amazingly personal script. This is the…
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Top 25 Albums of 2022
2022 has been a whirlwind of a year – the first full year post-covid without any covid lockdowns, and the closest we have come to normal for some time. There has been no shortage of year-defining events that have made headlines and caused sensation, but similarly no shortage of great music being released. One of…
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In Defence of Russian Athletes
This week Wimbledon announced that they will be banning all Russian and Belarusian nationals from playing in this year’s competition. This is in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing atrocities that we are seeing unfurl on the news each day. The ban will have a huge effect on the sport and…
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Movie Mondays- Boiling Point
This week for Movie Mondays I thought I’d talk about a movie from last year that I missed when making the best of 2021 list. Despite having its official release date last year, Boiling Point was widely released to the UK public back in March via Netflix. The entire hour and a half runtime amazingly…
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Movie Mondays- Paris, Texas
Sometimes it can feel like you’ve already watched most of the classics, or at least the ones that appeal to you most strongly. With such a rich back catalogue of brilliant films from across the world, it is to be expected that the occasional gem may pass you by entirely. Relying on streaming services as…
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Movie Mondays: Best of 2021 Special
As we’re only just into a new year I thought I’d bring back Movie Mondays with a bit of a retrospective on the best movies of 2021. There are definitely some films that I have not gotten around to yet but will hopefully watch soon. Some of these movies that will not be included here…
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Top 25 Albums of 2021
With 2021 being a bit of a damp squib, we have thankfully had plenty of great new music as a silver lining to the mundanity of staying at home. With touring returning for musicians for a while only to once again be put on hold with the arrival of Omicron, many artists have used the…
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The Carbon Footprint Paradox
Growing up in Scotland during the noughties, climate change and environmental awareness were a part of the curriculum at both primary and secondary school. I would say that it is safe to assume that including such topics in school has an overall positive affect on the way that children think about the world that surrounds…
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