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Veterinary Work Experience
A small U-turn from English to finding experience in Veterinary...
After graduating in English, I have returned to another passion of mine in veterinary medicine. So over the summer and autumn I found a couple of different experiences to find out whether the subject truly is something I want to explore more. To apply to study Veterinary Medicine, experience in an animal setting, and a clinical setting are vital for the application process.
Tiggy Winkles…
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Salman Rushdie and The Nuclear Deal: A Timely Assassination, or Unfortunate Coincidence?
Salman Rushdie and The Nuclear Deal: A Timely Assassination, or Unfortunate Coincidence?
On August 12th Indian-British author Salman Rushdie was stabbed as he was about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Rushdie has been a controversial writer since the publication of ‘The Satanic Verses’ which critises islam. He received many death threats at the time including from Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, who issued a fatwa, a religious edict, calling…
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Awards Season: A Review of 'Belfast' and 'The Power of The Dog'
With the #BAFTA's last weekend and the #Oscars upcoming, here's a review of two of the front runners...
#Belfast #powerofthedog
The BAFTA’s were last weekend and the Oscars are coming up on the 28th of March (at 1am if you’re in Britain), award shows that for years have celebrated the power of the cinema and now streaming sites, to quote Kenneth Branagh’s speech ‘long live the big screen’. Movies are now competing in two platforms and between different kinds of audiences. Most great films are just meant to be seen big,…
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#academy#award season#awards#BAFTA#belfast#Benedict Cumberbatch#blog#blogger#Film#Judi Dench#Kenneth Branagh#movie#opinion#oscars#review
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International Woman's Day
International Woman’s Day
International Woman’s day, on March 8th, has officially been deemed a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women by the UN since 1975. But has been informally celebrated since the suffragette movement. As each IWD rolls around on this site I have celebrated some of the important women in my life, recommended incredible films and books written and…
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Robert Harris's "Munich" Review
A review of Robert Harris's book 'Munich' and its recent Netflix adaptation... #Munichtheedgeofwar #netflix
A story that speaks for our time, or a tackless redemption story?
“Munich: The Edge of War” was released on Netflix and at selected cinemas at the end of January 2022. It stars George Mackay as Hugh Legat (a fictional English civil servant) and Jannis Niewöhner as Paul Hartmann (a German diplomat) with Jeremy Irons playing the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.
The novel, published in…
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Repeating History?| 'Munich' and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
Is History being repeated? Looking up from the pages of 'Munich' by Robert Harris this week, to see Russia attacking Ukraine in the news, felt like I hadn't left the world of the book at all...
Netflix recently released ‘Munich: The Edge of War’, a film adaptation of Robert Harris’s book. It centres around the Munich agreement, Chamberlain’s attempt to ensure peace in Europe via the negotiation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. With Vladimir Putin’s Russia waging war on Ukraine, reading this book felt very apt for me, and terrifying. Looking up from the pages to hearing the news at…
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Should Boris Johnson Resign?
I’ve caved. I’m joining the conversation on the continuing discussion of #partygate and Boris Johnson’s leadership capabilities... Do you think Boris Johnson should resign?
I’ve caved. I’m joining the conversation on the continuing discussion of #partygate and Boris Johnson’s leadership capabilities.
In December it was first published by ITV that Boris Johnson and other members of his cabinet broke their own social distancing rules to hold a boozy after work meeting or party. The leaked images showed MP’s sat in the garden at 10 Downing Street drinking. Then,…
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Finding the Silver Lining
Finding the Silver Lining
“Liquid silver falls from the skiesDrop
by
Drop
Squeezed from the darkness aboveDrops become a flowing silver riverWinding around the bend or hung on a string
Frozen in time.
A snapshot.
Gently slipping, tumbling downBut joins the mass eventually.
The darkness breaks.
Light spurts out.Like moonlight on the waterIts golden glow illuminatinga delicate cobwebbed pathBursting forth on the…
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New Year
Happy New Year!
New Year
With each new year
we celebrate and cheer.
Orange swirls, red dots,
yellow explosions
light up the dark
but what is it for?
Another year that is over
or a new one about to begin?
Do we celebrate in hope or in fear?
As we sit atop the cliff of a year
we see a sheer
drop
and below an unseen ocean that smiles with a leer
for beneath, sharp rocks may lurk or a tide unforgiving
preparing…
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A Winter's Wood Portrait
A Winter’s Wood Portrait
The forest lanes
Like branches, mine
Like veins
Intertwine.
Tracing your lines
Behind my eyes.
A capillary-ous show
Of avenues, of multitudes.
Blood like water flows
From the root.
Blown bare and leafless
In the winters loot,
My mind’s eye sees you.
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Writing for the Orbital Magazine... (+ Blog updates)
Writing for the Orbital Magazine… (+ Blog updates)
The first Issue of Orbital this university year is out! In a Uni update in September I announced that I was appointed Head Opinion Editor for RHUL’s largest student publication, The Orbital. It has been great working with all the lovely people there and getting a great group of contributors and writers together for the section.
What is The Orbital Magazine?
Orbital is the largest student…
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A Portrait of a Fairytale
A Portrait of a Fairytale
Once upon a time
In a wondrous winter wood
Of trees blown bare and pine
Stood a woman that should
Freezing be, looked rather fine
Gliding over leaves wanton,
Touching tree, seeing giants in a trap-
Imagination often gets forgotten-
Tracing with a finger an infinite map.
With hair stood frozen in the winds embrace,
Legend says that she still walks there-
The journey written in her face
For weary…
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The Future is Digital: a look at NFT's
The Future is Digital: a look at NFT’s
The Future is Digital – a bit obvious for a title isn’t it? Our entire lives are on the internet; from our social lives, our money, our work and now collecting. Buying and selling anything from original files of art and photography to car part designs at McLaren and first copy merchandise – it’s all online and marketable. NFT’s are opening up new pathways for businesses and introducing new forms…
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Masks - a Poem
Masks – a Poem
I type into google
a m a s k
expecting the spook of the season
in orange and white and green
for pumpkin or ghost or Frankenstein
or black, the cat, the witch, the vampire
or red, for gore and blood, for devil
instead the blue
sheets fill the screen.
The same that lie discarded
trodden on roadsides
remnants of a crisis in motion
laid to rest on the side,
as we attempt moving on.
There are more…
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Do the Germans Do it Better? | First thoughts on John Kampfner's latest Book
Do the Germans Do it Better? | First thoughts on John Kampfner’s latest Book
When I first saw this book laid out on the spotlighted tables of Waterstones it stood out to me, not just because of its fairly striking yellow spine, but because of its seemingly sensationalist title – Why the Germans do it better. Unlike my title for this post, Kampfner went with something bold, brave and emotive. Emotive both for Germans, I imagine, and people of other nationalities alike,…
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Reading Harry Potter for the First Time at 20...
Reading Harry Potter for the First Time at 20…
J. K Rowling’s series of Harry Potter books are arguably the most popular books of the twenty first century so far, both for adults and children. Originally published in the children’s section with brightly coloured illustrations of the fantastic, the covers soon got a paired-back refresh to sit a bit closer to the adult shelves. The books and the films have an enormous fan base, larger than its…
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Life is Like a Hurdle Circuit
Life is Like a Hurdle Circuit
Life is like a hurdle circuit
by Accalia Smith
A journey is sometimes used to describe a life,
With twists and turns
climb
to
Mountains
Paths to choose.
Sometimes you might reach a
hurdle circuit.
A series of challenges for you
to complete.
Some hurdles are easy,
you can step over those
Some hurdles are a little tricky,
it takes a run up to scale those
Some hurdles are far too high;
you…
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