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Throughout July I have posted a series of business thoughts that comment on the world today. Obliquely political I have posited a view linking business and women’s empowerment and observed the responses on social media. There have been four themes with one underlying message, that of friendship.  Despite her FLOTUS tenure regretfully coming to an...
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wildfang
2016 is sadly shaping up to be a year that will be remembered for division and discrimination. With the UK having voted to leave the EU in July and now the US election looming, a message of togetherness is incredibly important and fervently needed. Describing themselves as “the home for badass women” fashion and lifestyle...
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Skateboarding by nature was always seen as an act of rebellion – taking private spaces and making them into your personal playground to grind, flip and cruise along is a way of reclaiming cities. But over the years it has been diluted by mass media and our governments; by turning it into a sport and...
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I’ve never believed in God as such, but when I was younger and felt that my life was awful I used to blame an unseen higher force for all my woes. It was easier to have something to aim all my anger at, to assign every misfortune, mistake and problem to a person or being...
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Elsa - Frozen
Over the past couple of weeks the internet has been awash with campaigns, tweets and articles urging Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend in Frozen 2. The campaign comes from the growing frustration of a lack of diversity from the production company – instead giving us countless white, heterosexual relationships. Putting this type of pressure...
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Carol
Over 60 years since The Price of Salt was first published – a story of two women, both from different warps of life who ultimately fall in love. It has now been adapted for the big screen in the form of Carol. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara play the leading ladies, with both actresses earning...
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Today is the day that millions of dedicated fans have waited for. The eagerly anticipated third season of Orange is the New Black has been released on Netflix. In 2013 OITNB’s debut season blew up unexpectedly, gaining some of the most loyal and passionate fans a series like this has ever had, and so it...
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So here it is, welcome to 2015. By now you’ve probably been bombarded with people saying ‘new year, new me’, claiming their diet starts tomorrow and ramming their New Years resolutions down your throat even though you didn’t ask. I only wish that for once, people would step outside of themselves and start working towards...
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