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The time has finally arrived. The pubs are open. In the official first week back, so many people have dealt with the drop in restrictions in different ways. Was it just us, or have you heard of people going to a new pub every night since the 12th? Of course, in the student area, everyone has been buzzing to meet up with their friends. But student meeting up isn’t meeting up unless alcohol is involved. For Southampton students we spoke to who went to pubs consecutive nights in

She’s lying, she’s an actress, she’s been planning this from day one… Here are just some of the tweets, headlines and day-to-day dialogue that has been pouring irrevocably from the media since the infamous ‘Meghan and Harry interview’ with Oprah. In this honest, frank conversation between a famous US TV host and the royal couple, Meghan opens up about her depressive thoughts whilst being under immense amounts of scrutiny and trolling from the UK press. It was in the midst of

Tell us how its 2021 and sexual assault is still casual. Being groped unwontedly at a club? Casual conversation at breakfast. Being wolf whistled when you’re walking on the pavement in the dark? casual conversation with your co-workers at 4:00. We don’t know about you, but it’s always the same story; we drop these things in because we think nothing of them. Besides, we think twice about making a big deal of it because guaranteed at the back of our minds is the ever-presence o

#Housemates, who'd have them?! Well, it looks like most of us. And, with the intangible one-room flat prices, who can blame us? In the form of family, new found uni family, or not-family-at-all-when-is-it-second-year flat mates, this ones for you. So, starting at the start, leaving your home town sort of comes with a pre-requisite that you'll need to live with people you either don't know very well or have only known a short length of time- and it kinda sucks. Living at #univ

Although television screens may make us feel like it, we are not, sadly, all living the LA dream over in America, with our posh cars driving down palm tree-d roads. However, we thought this would be a great opportunity (since we are constantly immersed in their on-screen cultures) to explore what this wonderfully popular holiday called thanksgiving is all about, and how America celebrates it. So, let’s go back to the basics. Thanksgiving is basically a day where people give t

As our wonderful Stitcht Bake-off comes to a close, it’s time we looked back at all of the bakes people have been submitted in the competition. Jumping straight into week one, with cake week, Jas was the first to submit, making the classic yet always-a-crowd-pleaser chocolate chip muffins. Next came Fay with her ambitious Swiss roll, with a questionable amount of bumps and a very worryingly runny consistency- despite the ‘few wrinkles’ on top, though, it ‘didn’t turn out too

We all know someone who was #bullied, teased, or mocked at some point in their lives, whether you were the #bully themselves, the #victim, or the #bystander. We’re all taught about it in school with the obligatory worksheets and activities, but, the truth is, sometimes you don’t know it’s happening, even if you’re the one it’s happening to. We must all be so vigilant in these times because teasing doesn’t have an age or environmental limit. It can be online, offline, in the p

In today’s world, old notions of femininity and masculinity still govern our abilities as people to talk. We are bound by an invisible force that tells our men they are not ‘manly’ enough, not ‘butch’ enough, and not ‘strong’ enough. As a result of this damaging narrative, men feel like they cannot talk about their health. But, physical or mental, it is integral to talk. What we cannot change is the way each individual man feels. But, what we can absolutely change is the way

Spooky season is officially upon us. Personally, we can’t wait. As we all stock up our appropriately sized pumpkins, big or small, whatever floats your creative boat, and start hanging up the freaky cobwebbed décor, let’s talk about how Halloween is something which never quite grows old, no matter how old you may get… Obviously, to start, Halloween freaks every child the out. Certainly, as children, we all remember walking around the dimly lit house around the end of October,

Mental health. It’s a tricky one. No one knows how to be there for friends who are suffering. And, the friends who are suffering don’t know how you can help, either. We’re all left in this odd time continuum where no one knows what to do. Especially over lockdown, this has been such a reality for so many people. COVID-19 has brought with it so much external pain, of course, but equally as important is the mental strain it has brought on all of us. Being forced indoors, away f

Not that we’re all mastermind keyboard warriors, but we do definitely hide behind our screens sometimes. Surely, you remember waiting awkwardly in the corridor before a class with your phone out, pretending to text, just the same as you and your friends used to flip up your pink Tesco mobile phones when a rather dishy person of the opposite sex walked by. We all really do use our phones to hide from real life, and, over time, we’ve become pros at it. Here at Stitcht, we feel

Ishaaq Shafi’s message is clear, and it’s an important one. So, we’re going to help share it. Like many of us, as soon as Ishaaq saw the explosion in Beirut on the news, he wanted to do something impactful and immediate to help. With people being more inclined to resonate with a conversation, he vowed to start one up, using us. He wanted to collect as many messages as he could to show support for the people of Beirut, aiming to create the feeling of calling a friend, and offe