Mazzy Star: what is so endearing about notoriously sad music?

Jade Barnes provides a commentary on why sad music, and specifically Mazzy Star’s music, is so captivating for modern day listeners.

Egyptian-Israeli Peace: 45 Years On

Today, the 27th of October, marks forty-five years since Menachem Begin and Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat were awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel, this article shall look to understand what was negotiated as part of the Egyptian-Israeli peace and why they were/are important, then looking into the effects of […]

The holy and the broken: The philosophy of Leonard Cohen

‘Otherwise, you live’: what Louise Glück tells us about death

Have we been unfair to Æthelred the Unready?

The perfect books for this autumn

Was Henry V really ‘the greatest man who ever ruled England’?

The gruesome tale of Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.

What’s your Personal Metaphysics?

Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?