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I’ve never seen a single Love Island episode in my whole life, and I’ve seen so little of both I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and The X Factor that it’s entirely unsurprising that I’ve never seen Caroline Flack on TV before. That is, until she took her own life the day after Valentine’s Day, at the age of just forty.I’m sure just like all of you reading this – those who knew of her and equally those who didn’t – Caroline Flack’s suicide has left me feeling extremely sad and disappointed. It is utterly tragic that someone, who seemingly had a great career, was always a happy and energetic person to be around, was someone so many people looked up to as a relatable person presenting the shows they loved – seemingly, all of those things – could take their own
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It’s 24th April, and Britain is currently in the midst of a deadly coronavirus disease spread, a virus which has so far killed almost 20,000 Brits. The outbreak was declared a pandemic by WHO (The World Health Organization) on 11th March this year, when it officially became a serious worldwide crisis, and Britain subsequently entered lockdown on 23rd March, quarantine measures we still aren’t yet able to lift.Scary, isn’t it? Or perhaps not. Depends on where you’re coming from (and I say that with some irony). It’s how the media would have the news transmitted around the country, and if you’re coming from a position of ignorance on the matter, then yes, the above caption is scary. But if you’re informed of the number and various types of epidemics, and indeed pandemics, which have spread
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Britain’s on lockdown, so working from home has never been as prevalent as now. Turning your spare room into an office seems a simple task, but it’s essential you get it right in order to maintain a healthy working environment inside your own homeThat journey you take every day to and from work, those lunchtimes socialising with your colleagues, and that constant, fundamental feeling of being a part of your team with everyone around you striving to achieve a shared goal. For the time being, those aspects of your working life are on hold due to the current pandemic and consequent lockdown taking place throughout Britain. But fear not! Working from home boasts many advantages, and there are many fantastic ways to keep your working life productive, satisfying and healthy. If you have a spare
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As life slowly begins to get back to normal,I feel compelled to reflect on my time during lockdown,Because life will never be normal again,Not a gesture, a smile, or a single frown.It will, in one way or another, be better than it wasBefore this virus came into our fragile and ever-diminishing lives.It’s awoken our senses to appreciate the simpler things in life,Things which we’ve been forced to embrace within our trusty little hives.I began lockdown by cleaning all of the windows for clear views, so that, whilst we ourselves were contained,Our spirits would not be, like the flying birds and free-reigning wildlife outside, even when it rained.My partner and I transformed our spare room from a junkyard into a neat and tidy office space,With a freestanding shelving unit and storage chests t
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As the child I am at heart, with an expansive imagination and a keen desire to escape into the fantasy world in which I can free my soul, feed my love for all things fantastical and challenge my brain with puzzles and conundrums, I love playing video games. The Legend of Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Dead Space, BioShock, Uncharted, The Last of Us, God of War, Infamous, Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto series’ of games are in my opinion some of the very best pieces of creative mastery ever made for the gaming industry. So with National Video Game Day just around the corner (8th July) – not to be confused with National Video Games Day (12thSeptember), because that would just be wierd! – I feel plugged in, fully loaded and ready to defend what it so rightly annual
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A shock to the biological system, and a rapture of the heart… BioShock is more than just a highly critically acclaimed video game. It’s also a conduit for political statement and philosophical revelation. Although the game essentially serves as a wonderful first-person-shooter with emergent gameplay and immense level design allowing for expansive exploration, the gamer is also invited into an experience which is very much of the intellect.The Godless Garden of Eden.The aptly named ‘Rapture’ is a manmade underwater city which was, at the time of its construction in 1946, intended to be an isolated utopia for society’s elite to live, flourish and thrive. Since they’d be doing so with their own private economy, with no contact with the outside world allowed, the idea was that they
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As a fan of the genre, I tend to gravitate towards horror films quite easily. Horrors are often thought of as one of the more predictable of film genres, and when you look at the original slasher horrors from the seventies and eighties (such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street), that’s probably true. Most of us have all seen that formula and general narrative movement, and, yes, slasher horrors are generally pretty predictable, and all too often fraught with bad acting, unimaginative plots and foreseeable endings.But there is a different, more sophisticated type of horror film which I think has in modern times redefined the genre as now one of the most unpredictable in cinema, and that’s exactly why I like horror films so much. A good ho
