Billy B’s library seat squeeze is just the beginning
Struggling to find a seat in the Billy B? That’s just the start. Durham’s problems are about to get a whole lot worse, argues Zoë Boothby.
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Teen relationships are an education in their own right
Teenage romance is a positive learning experience, argues Zoë Boothby.
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She’s Gotta Have It – have you?
“Complexity is often discarded in favour of moralising, or, even worse, writers conforming to the exact stereotypes they are attempting to avoid.” Zoe Boothby reviews She’s Gotta Have It – is it for you?
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Falling for florals
Zoë Boothby recounts how a break-up helped rekindle her love of fashion.
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Comment writers reflect on 2017
As we enter 2018, Comment reflects on what has been a strange and divisive year for many of us.
Read moreSocial media and the art of saying goodbye
Has social media made us worse at saying goodbye? Zoë Boothby says it’s time to accept that not everyone will stay in our lives forever.
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Christmas Reads: ‘Filth’ by Irvine Welsh
“I love Irvine Welsh’s writing. No other author seems to get in my head in the way that he does.”
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Is the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show stopping us from embracing our bodies?
“I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to such an event, should the ‘Angels’ actually be representative of the women I see all around me (and should Victoria’s Secret actually stock a bra that might fit me).”
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Words of 2017
Fed up of ‘fake news’? Our Comment writers choose their alternative words of 2017.
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Wrong Tree’s Solstice at Edinburgh Fringe: ‘mythical and immersive’
Although devised student theatre might strike fear in the hearts of some, in the case of Solstice this fear is entirely unwarranted.
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