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Is your ‘summer body’ ready?

May 5, 2021May 5, 2021 sub.editors 0 Comments Rachel Payne

“My body didn’t stop being a body with the sudden change in temperature. I wasn’t, and am still not, a weather dependent entity.” Rachel Payne examines the damaging rhetoric behind the ‘summer body’ in the media.

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Handforth Parish Council: a new Netflix drama?

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 sub.editors 0 Comments amber conway, Rachel Payne

“Could these comedic scenes, found only in our new world of Zoom and Microsoft Teams, instigate the beginning of a new genre of comedy?”: Honor Douglas explores why the Handforth Parish Council might pave the way for the future of comedy.

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