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In Today's world everything we do is shared on social media, including our relationships, but what effect does this really have on our romance life? Sherry Turkle, writes in her book Reclaiming conversation; The Power of Talk in a Digital Age: " You learn to give your friends a pass when they drop in and our of conversation to talk with friends on their phones. And a flirtation, you learn to treat NOTHING as something to put out of your mind." While Turkle explores what she calls The Nothing Gambit , the effects of technology on the way we communicate and what we expect from the people we have relationships with, I am more curious in the effects of social media at large on our relationships. When a couple enters a romantic relationship it is commonly expected that they will announce this relationship online through their many social media applications, and in doing so receive likes and acknowledgement from their friends and loved ones. This then continues thro...

Of all the children who go missing everyday Madeline MacCann is virtually the only known face, or name on the register. Brought into the press again with the publication of The Truth of the Lie, by Portuguese police investigator Goncalo Amarla, Madeline MacCann seems to be the only cute child the press cares about. The Truth of the Lie states that the MacCann's killed their daughter, and then covered it up with an investigation, which of course the parents took to court. Whether this is true or not, the disappearance of Madeline was very much the parents fault anyway, having left her in a foreign hotel room while they went drinking all night and having different people check in with her every hour. If anything her disappearance should have highlighted poor parenting, the dangers of foreign travel with small children, or even just the extensive list of ongoing missing children cases. That is not how it went however, instead the press decided these parents care more than ...

Basic politics is easy to grasp, but trying to teach yourself politics, in an unbiased manner, is very difficult. In my high school Social Education was made a mandatory subject, taught once a week, for the entity of the high school education, And while repeatedly learning the same things about sex and drugs is SO important there is no education on basic politics to speak of. Also I was never taught how to write a cheque, pay bills, or set up insurance, but those are separate issues. The recent run of elections, and referendums, and the poor youth turnouts are a huge sign that the populace is not receiving any understanding of basic politics. However, making it a mandatory topic within high school education, such as embedding it into already existent classes like social education, could prepare the future generations for making strong, well educated decisions when it comes the the governing of our country. With most parents not even having the most basic grasp of unbiased pol...

Changing pounds into euros Sunday, following the General Election results was crippling, for my bank account.  In the two hours it took to get from my home to the currency exchange the pound plummeted, costing me an extra eight pounds sterling from the amount I would have paid two hours previously. While in the queue for the till the pound dropped an extra two pounds in fifteen minutes.  Having been given a chance to make positive changes to government and society as a whole the British people queued up on Thursday and said; 'Fuck you, I'm British. I like strife and conflict.' Resulting in the second hung parliament in ten years, not nearly enough time to recover from the Nick Clegg, and David Cameron partnership that got us here in the first place.  Though we could count back this awful system of government and snide politics to Tony Blair and his New Labour campaign.  The vote had a few interesting plot turns, such as Kennsington going home to...

While the Scottish Government celebrates the success of the Real Living Wage initiative, and talk proudly of it's growth across the nation I find it hard to be happy about an £8.45 an hour wage when for years we've been promised a £10 an hour minimum. Though the current real living wage isn't too far off the promised £10 an hour it's still not a big enough difference to ensure a good life style for all citizens. With the cost of living increasing at a steeper rate than the national minimum wage, and the current conservative government aiming to remove human rights, and in so, the minimum wage entirely things do not stand to get better in the UK. Laden with student debts and the impossibility of owning your own home outright in most areas, citizen in the UK on the whole are under intense financial pressures with no promise of it getting better. I find it difficult to ignore the fact that council employees are paid standard wage. How are we supposed to believe...

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The commute is a relatively common experience for members of the British public. It is an art form of tired worn people, dancing amongst each other and fighting for seats. The commute is where you will most likely catch every cold of the season. It is where you'll grow extremely well at balancing sue to endless hour's forced into standing due to the seemingly endless shortage of seating. But the worst thing many would say about their daily commute is the boredom. Without a friend of 'travel buddy' on is isolated on the commute. A battle between courtesy and the ability to complete ignore those around you.  It is this boredom that drains many people on their commute, the inability to do anything slowly sucking ones soul away. The art to the commute is to find a way to fight of this boredom. To read is one of the best and most widely adopted method to escape boredoms clutches, however when forced to standing, reading becomes less of a liable option. Another way to d...

If you are anything like me you will have put learning to drive off until you absolutely had too. There where a number of things which prevented me from getting behind the wheel, and, unlike most the cost wasn't the biggest thing. No, my biggest worry about driving was my personal disbelief that I, only of eight stone and five feet one inch, could possibly, ever, make something as big as a car move. Every time my mind climbed over the wall that stopped me from thinking I could move the car I was assaulted by fears of endless stalling, the possibility of turning the car directly into a ditch, veering into a car that was overtaking for I failed to remember where the break was, and the ultimate worry that I would turn an inicent by-stander into a pancake. My first ever driving lesson was just before last Christmas. My mother arranged it, refusing to accept my refusals to do it. Thankfully she did arrange it for a tutor from her area and for when I would be visiting for the holid...

Basing any prior knowledge on the flashy, awe grabbing advert for the new reality T.V. show on BBC Three, I survived a Zombie Apocalypse, one had hoped that the show would be just as existing as the advert was. Hope thrived on the idea that putting regular people into such a scenario would bring out the best and worst qualities in an amusing, secretly recorded non-scripted way. Seeing the show finally pop up on BBC IPlayer gave cause to drop everything else just to watch it. The opening credits infused the idea, based on the long growing suspicion that radio waves are bad for our brains in some as of yet unknown way, the possibility that heightening these waves to far could cause serious neurological damage, and in this case cause the feared 'Zombies' It was all very flashy, clever and almost believable, well that is until the people started pulling in. There clips bringing you back to the sad reality that is British society, the fact that these people would be instructed...

J.K. Rowling , born July 31, 1965, is a globally renowned author. She is best known for the Harry Potter fantasy series, the first novel of which was published in 1997, and went on to become a worldwide phenomenon including a series of movies. Through these books Rowling made children’s books a possible field for authors across the globe, completely changing the way we see the children’s novel. She donates to charities on a regular basis. Particularly towards MS groups, and during the recent Scottish referendum donated money to the Better Together campaign. In 2013 she released her latest book The Casual Vacancy. Andy Murray , born May 25, 1987, has been Britain’s number one tennis player since February 2006, and is currently ranked number six in the world. He is a two-time Grand Slam winner, and is arguably Scotland’s best sportsman. Born in Glasgow, Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, and was pre...