Cut Through The Consensus
Our new frame for contemporary cultural concerns.
Zara's new collection fails to make 'Made in China' chic
Cyclosporiasis, a history of skinny culture, and social media perfection.
An interview with Barbara Trionfi on why the media is a bastion of security and freedom.
Loss, paralysis, and the need for conversation in a climate crisis
Wellness influencers are deliberately keeping a health gap open to ensure consumers buy wellness products
Children already witness violence every day. The real question is who teaches them how to interpret it.
Wine has spent too long trapped behind the language of connoisseurs and expensive cellars. This is a call to democratise the bottle: to...
Mapping the cultural and psychological backrooms of the UK’s social media ban.
“You know how to ball, I know Aristotle” – but, what do you believe?
An interview with Misha Glenny on Artificial Intelligence, European populism and how to bite back.
A24’s dark romance mistakes moral provocation for insight, turning America’s most recurring tragedy into atmosphere.
An investigation into AI companionship, emotional dependency, and the price of convenience.
When Noah Wyle stood before the London press last month to launch The Pitt on British screens, he professed that he finds the...
On Tuesday 31st March, hundreds swarmed the streets of Clapham and six teenage girls were arrested for anti-social behaviour. The youth riot, said...
This coming July will mark the United States’ sestercentennial: two hundred and fifty years since the Thirteen Colonies announced their desire for independence....
How Hindutva found its loudest echo not in India, but in the diaspora.
Is love truly blind? That’s the golden question on everyone’s mind for Netflix’s hit reality show: Love is Blind. It’s a simple recipe;...
The decline of local journalism threatens to distance us from our neighbours and make us lose sight of community issues - so why...
The nineteenth-century philosopher's insights into personal development, societal advancement, and eccentricity run contrary to current attitudes towards free speech.
As Wuthering Heights returns to screen, Cartier’s jewels remind us that history is never neutral.
Facing increasingly restricted protest rights, activists are turning to material protest forms to make their voices heard.
With the release of the long awaited Season 5, questions surrounding Noah Schnapp's comments regarding Zionism arise once again. Did the Duffer Brothers...
Over the past few years, an alarming correlation between the England Men’s Test Cricket Team and global reading habits has emerged. In almost...
Christopher Anderson’s photographs strip Trump’s inner circle of spectacle, forcing us to confront the unsettling fact of their ordinariness.
The left keeps losing on immigration for one simple reason: and it isn’t what you think.
Put simply, Leo is a figure whose politics and personality are not leaping out at the world. By comparison, Pope Francis was not...
What unsettles me most is not the deepfaking of reality but something more recursive: the “creative destruction” of creativity. Previous waves of economic...
Some Italian students know Chaucer, Eliot and Shakespeare by heart - why does education not yield the same results in the UK?
Christianity has so many varying denominations and opposing theological stances, that even diametrically opposed people can both find their way to becoming a...
Life itself should be an object of awe, of wonder. We should marvel at the miraculous presence of life itself in animals, instead...
Picture the iconic Southern Belle of the 1890s: Scarlett O’Hara and Melanie Hamilton in Gone With The Wind; perhaps the more child-friendly example...
Societies have long outsourced such tasks to religious figures, politicians, editors and teachers. Today, people increasingly turn to non-human curators.
Around 2017, the song ‘Plastic Love’ by Mariya Takeuchi became a viral sensation on YouTube.The music played over a photo of a smiling...
Leon Trotsky is one of a select number of people in history who was killed twice — both in Mexico City at the...
