Daisy Stewart Henderson
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In defence of Spa Weekend (opens the original)
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Last Sunday morning, I walked about an hour on a pilgrimage through a deprived part of inner-city Glasgow around the time you might go to church. My sister had gone to university for the first time the day before, and my mum and I were missing her. So we wanted some light-hearted relief from dwelling on the passing of time. In a move that I feared a lot of my Cambridge peers would frown upon, we were going to see a movie with almost exclusively one-star reviews: Spa Weekend. The premise of Spa W
The price of not selling out (opens the original)
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For all three years of my degree, when someone asked me what I wanted to do after graduation, I’d provide the same answer: “Maybe work in policy.” Now, I’ll confess, I didn’t really know what that meant initially. In some ways, I still don’t. Policy is, after all, a broad church, which I fear has become something of a shorthand for: “I’m going to apply for the Civil Service Fast Stream and not corporate graduate schemes, because I want to make the world a better place.” Note: my desire to make t
Are we failing young novelists? (opens the original)
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When I was 12, I won a creative writing competition. I’d submitted two utterly structureless poems, one of which was from the perspective of a beached whale, and a short story about a boy who lived in an abattoir. In hindsight, they were quite odd. Nevertheless, I won a five day writing retreat to a beautiful corner of the Scottish Highlands with eleven other young writers, where, mercifully, that eccentricity was celebrated. We’d do workshops and share what we’d written, but we also went on lon
An ode to my college (opens the original)
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Over the course of my degree, people would ask me whether I regretted applying to Trinity College. I think they assumed that I found it too posh or academically intense or scary, or that I was secretly one of those things. It’s only now, at the end of the known universe that is graduation, that I’ve become confident that I made the right decision. I had never even considered Trinity, dismissing it as a level of grandeur too great even for my teenage hubris, until, on a whim, I went for a tour of
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