Opinion

By Madeline Baugh In the past 150 or so years, I think we can all agree that the feminist movement has done so much to help women all around the world.  From women gaining the right to vote, to gaining more independence over the decades, many big steps have been taken to ensure the liberty of women. But just how far have we come? Is it really a perfect world for women to live in today’s age? And how far do we have to go? Its roots can be traced back to The Women’s Social and Political Movement (WSPU) being founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, with the women’s suffrage movement already existing for many years before. The core reason for this movement was to fight for a woman’s right to vote. Pankhurst believed that more action was needed to be taken in order to give women that...

By Eleanor Harvey A few weeks ago, I received a pretty enticing job offer. It came, as all the best things do, in the form of an unsolicited message from a random person on social media, in this case LinkedIn. This Mr A. told me he was looking for an ‘excellent freelance writer’ and that my profile ‘stood out’. I mean, obviously. The green flags kept on coming, from ‘no interview required!’ to a salary of ‘$15 USD per hour’. I was already totting up how I’d spend this generous amount, perhaps on moving to a country where dollars are legal tender, before I’d registered what the job actually was: to ‘join my team at Outlier, where we train AI systems—no AI knowledge required!’ Somewhat unexpectedly, Outlier is a real company, though admittedly one which has attracted several Reddit pa...

By Madeline Sidgwick - Editor-In-Chief Immediately climbing to the top of Netflix's streaming charts, the second instalment of Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ focused on ‘The Eric and Lyle Menendez story’. Upon watching the series, I began to question the morality behind creating entertainment out of a disturbing case of events. The rise of the true crime genre is not sudden; the popularity of ‘America’s Most Wanted’ beginning in the 1980s and the global phenomenon that was ‘Tiger King’ in 2020, gripped audiences globally. However, I begin to seriously question true crime more when actors, directors, and social media promoters become involved in the sub-genre that is the ‘recreation’ of such crimes.  Specifically, Netflix’s ‘Monsters’ series has presented audiences with the intricacie...