The BBC was first set up in 1922 as a bastion to protect against influential, one-sided broadcasting. In its own words, it aimed to “create a single national conversation.” As it happens, this conversation has often revolved around the BBC …
The cult of high-protein foods
Phoebe Pascoe discusses the worrying rise of the newest food fad haunting the shelves
Whether you prefer to frequent Tesco or TikTok, one food group is particularly inescapable on shelves and online recently: protein. Recipes foreground how many grams of protein they include, yoghurts bear high-protein labels, and many influencers’ “everything I eat in …
Student social smoking at an all-time high in Dublin
Phoebe Pascoe discusses the smoking culture at Trinity in comparison to universities further afield
Walking into campus through the Arts Block one morning, I was confronted by a screen declaring Trinity a “tobacco-free campus”. Not only was I surprised, having not heard this once in my six months of studying here, but my confusion …