Carola Binney Carola Binney

Cloakrooms should be free to stop young women freezing to death

As I wiggled into my tights in preparation for an end-of-term night out, I was faced with the perennial clubbing question: should I take a coat?

Logic, and my mum, would say the answer was obvious. My outfit was hardly cosy, and a tipsy walk home at 2am in December is an adventure best braved from within my wardrobe’s most wind-proof, water-proof and fur-lined offering.

But the question wasn’t just one of insulation – I had a financial decision to make.

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Carola Binney
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Carola Binney
Carola Binney is an undergraduate History student at Magdalen College, Oxford. She writes on student life.

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