Social Media encourages the homogenisation of human sentiment, reducing individual emotional nuances to shallow clickable responses. Our capacity for rich and individual responses to our fellow human’s expressions, has been disgracefully crushed into a box the size of a like button, (or the marginally more ‘nuanced’ emoji). Is it not tragic that perhaps the majority of humans appreciate other humans' creations through the clicking of generic buttons? Facebook introduced the l

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You’re walking down the street and you are shocked to notice that your local grocery shop has been demolished, and all the bricks, vegetables, equipment and boxes sold for profit by the government. Without warning . What if it was not just your local grocery shop, what if it was your newsagents, local cafe, laundrette and your best friend. Not only this, but toxic chemicals were left to spill into your water supply? Would you be annoyed? Devastated? Disgusted? Outraged? It

Did you know that 79% of named statues in London are men? Perhaps that doesn’t come as a surprise to you knowing that women could only vote in 1918 and that the UK parliament is still made up of two thirds men, although 2022 is the first time that women have represented more than a third. Did you also know that, according to a UN study, an estimated 97% of women ages 18-24 have been sexually harrassed? We can, like everyone else, throw statistics around and hope for the best

SEO writing, it’s all the rage for businesses looking to increase visitor traffic to a website. But does it get in the way of language serving its purpose, i.e. to communicate? Does it pull this wonderful tool into service of greed and away from service of truth? Well these are lofty ideas, let's first look at what language is, before any more SEO bashing. Language developed so we can communicate; our thoughts, our feelings, our different realities, and it comes in many forms