Lauren has been featured in the Financial Times in the Arts section as one of the most influential young musicians on the planet. She was described in the article as a total phenomenon by Julian Lloyd Webber. The article also recognised how Lauren won the BBC Young Musician competition in 2018 with a rendition of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no.2 and how, two months later, she performed at the Royal Albert Hall in a Prom celebrating the competition’s 40th anniversary alongside previous winners Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Nicola Benedetti.

The great Easter Debate: a sweet, chaotic showdown
If you were expecting a serious, well-structured debate at this year’s Easter debate, you were in for a surprise. What unfolded was less of a formal argument and more of a theatrical masterpiece – complete with flying chocolate, wild accusations and a speaker who somehow turned it into a human rights campaign for sugar.