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Alice is a writer based in Oxford who recently graduated from the MA Creative Writing Prose at UEA. She has a penchant for learning about languages, loves grammar, and is a fan of explaining complex things in a simple way.
Rumor has it, Walmart – a store that sells a hell of a lot of stuff to a hell of a lot of people – is closed today. Why? Well, it's a thank you from Walmart management to Walmart staff. After all, everyone needs time off to rest and recuperate,...
On Monday, November 22, 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a CBI conference – the U.K.’s premier business organization – that the day prior, he went, “as we all must, to Peppa Pig World.” He proceeded to say that he “loved it,” that “it was...
Last week, I showed a video to a select few of my colleagues. “What did I just watch?” one asked. “Is that a zoomed-in quote from Mike Yeadon?!” another said. I explained to the former colleague that she had just watched an anti-vax rap battle...
On September 7, Sweet Anita, a Twitch streamer with 1.8 million followers, issued a statement:
On Friday 16, April 2021, I asked a dozen American citizens about the caterpillar-shaped chocolate cake familiar to most, if not all, Britons. Surprisingly — or unsurprisingly, I can’t decide — most of my interviewees didn’t know what on earth I...
In recent weeks, Amazon — the trillion-dollar company that sells everything from A to Z — has apparently been trying to boost its brand reputation on Twitter. This has entailed the company using questionable accounts to promote claims about...
On 12 May 2020, 62 days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Facebook updated its COVID-19 policy. In this update, they included a particularly tedious sentence written in corporate legalese — a soul-crushingly...
On September 29, at nine p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Logically’s fact checkers sat at their respective desks, their drinks of choice at their side and ninety minutes of quiet focus stretching before them. The evening was an auspicious one: the...
On 19 November, the BBC announced that Radio 1 would no longer be playing the uncensored version of “Fairytale of New York”, the popular Christmas song by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. Instead, whenever there is cause to broadcast the 1987 hit,...