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K-pop: a billion pound industry funded on racism?

On March 21st, Twice member Chaeyoung posted to Instagram a photo of her wearing a t-shirt with a swastika. This was followed by her wearing a t-shirt with a Qanon logo on their promotions for their third number one album Ready To Be. This incident has led to a discussion of racism, cultural appropriation and […]

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The Next Big Thing: Multi-instrumentalist Isaac Stuart

Isaac Stuart is a 23-year-old up-and-coming singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Oxfordshire. Since launching his first single Do You Like It When We Lay Like This in 2020, Isaac has gained over 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His music has been played multiple times on BBC Radio One and he sold out his first ever headline […]

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Food Porn: Sophie Nielsen on the success of Sexypenggrubgals

 To the majority of readers, the brand sexypenggrubgals might not ring any bells. Right now, it’s  a humble food review page on Instagram run by two young women. One of these is Sophie Nielsen, a 22-year-old media undergraduate student in London, who has managed to turn a simple interest into a brand in her spare […]

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Book Review: House of Glass Hearts by Leila Siddique

House of Glass Hearts begins with Maera and her mother Ammi as immigrants from Pakistan who settled in the United States. They have a distant relationship and refrain from talking about her elder brother, Asad, who disappeared a few years ago, while they were visiting her maternal home in Karachi.  One morning, out of nowhere, […]

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Tatenda Shamiso taking the West End by storm

Tatenda Shamiso is a half-Belgian, half-Zimbabwean multidisciplinary theatre maker who spent their youth between the US and Switzerland before moving to London, where they have achieved acclaim and success in the industry. What projects have you been involved in recently? I have been working on A Streetcar Named Desire. I have been there since October. […]

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Ten must know British songs for international students 

10) Peter Andre – Mysterious Girl Released in August 1995, initially, the song peaked at number 53; however, a remix released in 1996 caused the song to skyrocket to number one. The cheesy one-hit wonder made Peter Andre a staple of British TV and now the West End as he stares in Grease.   9) Gracious […]