When I was a child, the seafront looked like the only possible space in which you could linger forever. Growing … More
Category: Columns
Ways of Seeing: Women’s Bodies on Display
In my second year at university I opted to take a History of Art course to make up those extra … More
At The Pictures: Glasgow’s Small-Cinema Spirit
If the testimony of my older Glaswegian relatives is to be believed, then it was once the case that you … More
From the Tiber to The Clyde: Beginnings
Roughly a month after receiving my offer, I packed my bags and left Rome with my mum for a few … More
The EU Rambling: Fluctuat, nec mergitur – on Paris After Terror
Line 2 crosses the most vibrant and sometimes weirdest neighbourhoods in the north of Paris. From the crack dealers of … More
Ways of Seeing: Growing Up with ‘All This Panic’
It was the year David Bowie died, the year of Donald Trump’s election, the year of an extremely divisive referendum … More
Ways of Seeing: Climate Change and ‘A Plastic Ocean’
Around this time last year, I was lucky enough to get to travel to the Great Barrier Reef and submerge … More
The EU Rambling: On Loneliness in Success – the Grande École Problem
What they did not tell me when I applied for Erasmus in Paris is that I would be surrounded by … More
From the Tiber to The Clyde: A Roman’s Life in Glasgow – Glasgow Before Glasgow
On 3 March 2017 at around 7.10 a.m., a very sleepy me opened her inbox to discover she had received … More
Chai Chats: Trying Very Hard to be Moderately Happy (An Ode to Living your ‘Okayest’ Life)
Everything I’ve ever written that has been vaguely… not awful has been rattled out whilst sprawled on the kitchen floor, … More
