5th Jun 2018, 2:19pm
by George Dummons
Bank holiday weekends are an ever common thing during the spring and summer portion of the UK national holiday calendar. Naturally no one wants four days off in a row to get absolutely smashed in the middle of winter, apart […]
29th Mar 2018, 3:04pm
by George Dummons
How we measure and view age is changing. With more people living longer and populations increasing our world is filling up pretty fast. However, is it time to change at what ages people can do certain things at? When it comes to most […]
29th Mar 2018, 3:03pm
by George Dummons
It was announced on Tuesday 6th March that publication of News Music Events (NME) would be stopping after 66 years. It will live on though as an online music site instead. To many this has not been a bolt out […]
29th Mar 2018, 3:02pm
by George Dummons
On the fourth of March, my place of work had a stall at Portsmouth’s Vegan Fest. We were offering our range of in-house brewed beers that contain no finings (fish swim bladders) and are therefore vegan friendly. As a meat […]
3rd Mar 2018, 11:06pm
by George Dummons
December 2016 saw period poverty come to light with the release of Ken Loaches I, Daniel Blake. One scene where a struggling single mother shoplifting some sanitary towels sparked the interests with a range of people – soon food banks […]
3rd Mar 2018, 11:06pm
by George Dummons
In recent years I have found myself surrounded by the phrase ‘self care’ – often from health care professions but I have also encountered it with people who don’t suffer from or know people who suffer from mental health illnesses. […]
15th Feb 2018, 9:37am
by George Dummons
I once said that I would not write about crimes such as sexual assault in the opinion section of this paper. I was aware it was all over the news section of this and every other newspaper and felt that […]
15th Feb 2018, 9:36am
by George Dummons
We are continuously being shown how our lives are impacted by massively disastrous events and systems of power. We know that climate change is happening (regardless of humans involvement), we know that a period of mass extinction is happening (regardless […]
26th Jan 2018, 2:26am
by George Dummons
January is always an interesting month. In the journalism world it is a time of reflection and more so a time to look ahead, with various publication staff in an array of different newspapers and other outlets trying to predict […]