One amongst many The resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davie and the CEO of News and Current Affairs, Deborah Turness, followed what may be the most significant recent example of the BBC’s progressive fall from grace. They occurred after the most recent scandal in which the BBC admitted to splicing unrelated parts of a speech delivered by Donald Trump in a documentary from 2024 that aired just a week before the presidential election. Allegations of bias in BBC reporting followed, as...

We need to resurrect the house party There is no shame in loving a night out — the excitement of what a night will bring, the stories that will be torn into the next day over a Northpoint brunch.  This Halloween, I found myself in that very place:  At a table in Northpoint, the St Andrews air heavy with chaos, debriefs, grappling with the events of the night before. Yet, barely anything which came up in that concentrated hour of gossip, with the friend I’d been with the whole time, brought us...

Why we avoid it all and how to stop Feeling socially anxious? I would go so far as to say that, divorced from its legitimacy as a very real mental health condition, social anxiety has been normalised as an inevitable aspect of Gen Z culture. By this, I am referring to the fact that we have gone down the road, as a generation, of living for others and their perceptions of us. I’m guilty, yes, I care what people think of me . That is part of the human condition, and the point of my article...