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The end of digital wandering and the death of the click

In the age of AI intermediaries, websites become infrastructure — and humans stop navigating the web directly. Promising frictionless knowledge but at the cost of the chaos that made the internet creative. Have you ever wondered whether people still lose themselves online the way we once did, chasing one search into another until hours have…

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My brilliant female friendship — the subversive nature of friendship in Ferrante’s...

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The violence we understand vs the violence we refuse to see in...

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The end of digital wandering and the death of the click

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“Nirvana — live at the Paramount” — retrospective of the grunge movement,...

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The uncontrolled proliferation of AI-generated sexual abuse material — why regulatory promises...

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Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece — why the Emerald Fennell adaptation fails to...

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The complexity and reality of mortality of the Peaky Blinders

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Social media — an artificial connection to the world

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The richness of artist Belinda Eaton

Belinda Eaton’s magical realist paintings and portraits, done in acrylic or oil on canvas, are on show at the Catto Gallery after winning the Society of Women Artists prize. “My paintings are my world, my fascination for people, plants, animals and colour. They are how I perceive things with all their energy” said Eaton. Schooled…

A London strike in rainy June

I almost missed my post-op checkup. I didn’t sleep. Had to get up early. Tube strike day. Looked at Uber. £67. 15 mins to arrive. 2.5 hours to hospital. Nope. Have to try public transport. Got to Redbridge station. Next train 15 mins. Almost didn’t get on, stuffed. Aggressive man. Was going to switch onto…

Responsibility laundering — how democracies outsource border violence

Border externalisation — the outsourcing of migration control to states beyond a country’s borders — has quietly become a defining feature of modern border policy. Marketed as “partnerships” and “capacity building”, it in fact creates a transnational system of delegated violence, where accountability evaporates and suffering becomes someone else’s problem. The EU–Libya arrangement reveals this…

My brilliant female friendship — the subversive nature of friendship in Ferrante’s...

My Brilliant Friend is a tempestuous excavation of life in a sub-proletarian neighbourhood of Naples. Shrouded in violence and danger, the town becomes a microcosm of post-World War II Catholic societies. The story follows the mimetic relationship between the two protagonists, Lila and Elena. Lila is depicted as a complicated disobedient child, who is exceptional…

What Skims latest release can tell us about the state of body...

Kim Kardashian has broken the internet again– but this time it’s with fake pubes, not latex. “How funny are these merkins!” the Skim’s CEO chortled, holding up a pair of her line’s latest release to the camera: faux pubic hair underwear. The reaction has been mixed. Some think it’s marketing brilliance; others are worried she’s…

Everything You Need to Know About Chanel Spring 2026

Blazy’s New Vision, the Return of Chanel’s Original Style and the legendary Tweed to go silent Mathieu Blazy could’ve complained about AI having the potential to become a new Karl Lagerfeld, dismissing the human creativity factor in fashion industry tycoons. Instead, he came out with his first but already bold collection Spring ’26 for Channel,…

Fashion, sex and drag: Vivienne Westwood’s queer legacy

I was 13 years old when I discovered Vivienne Westwood. The music came first. From the moment I heard the album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, I was hooked. Within a few months, I was spending my pocket money on a knock-off Westwood design – tartan bondage trousers. My punk look was…

The complexity and reality of mortality of the Peaky Blinders

I walked out of The Immortal Man grieving a character that never existed. The film beautifully presents us with the unwrapped gift of death. Of confrontation. Of full realisation. The immigrant circle of life, so to speak. And yet even with the finality of Tommy’s mortality, we as an audience are left with a sadness…

The violence we understand vs the violence we refuse to see in...

There is something inherently human about our obsession with violence. From gladiators battling it out before excited amphitheatres to streaming platforms soaked with true crime documentaries, courtroom frenzies and psychologically distorted antiheroes, society has always strove to refurbish brutality into narrative. Stories, after all, are often constructed as tools through which we examine grief, justice…

Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece — why the Emerald Fennell adaptation fails to...

Book adaptations have always divided opinion, especially with texts as well-loved and hotly debated as Emily Brontë’s masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. Over the years the classic tale of the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has seen countless film, TV and theatre incarnations, and has even been immortalised in song by the inimitable Kate Bush. Unsurprisingly,…

My brilliant female friendship — the subversive nature of friendship in Ferrante’s...

What would Betty Friedan make of the 21st-century tradwife?

The alluring title of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique serves as a successful façade for the book’s rather morose themes. 15 years following her graduation from the all-female Smith College, Friedan constructed a questionnaire for her classmates — now all wives and mothers, but once equally academics. Despite the domestic reverie that had been portrayed…

Journey to the self: detangling adolescent desire and conditioned female shame in A...

In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux, in a somewhat self-indulgent practice, recounts her girlhood: all its desire, shame and vulnerability that encircles the years of female adolescence. Ernaux’s creative ability to place herself into the body of her 18-year-old self means reliving sexual and emotional trauma. She divulges into the summer of 1958 when she worked as…

“Nirvana — live at the Paramount” — retrospective of the grunge movement,...

From the muddy banks of the Wishkah in Aberdeen, Washington, Kurt Cobain, a troubled teen rooted with angst and spirit, began writing melodies and lyrics to release and express the frustrations of his day-to-day life, from his disillusionment with society to the slow burnout of his familial breakdown. He began to meet others, fellow punk-rock…

She’s a witch — influential women, mysticism and reversing misogynistic narratives in...

As early as the 14th Century, a woman exhibiting signs of sexual confidence, prosperity or self-expression was deemed inherently evil. An excerpt from 1486’s Malleus Maleficarum — perhaps the most notorious “witch hunter’s manual” — reads: “All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable… What else is a woman but a foe…

UK nightclubs facing extinction: the fight to save cubbing culture

The future of clubbing in the UK is under serious threat, as new data reveals an alarming rate of nightclub closures. According to recent figures from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), 2024 has already seen an average of five nightclubs closing each week—67 venues in just the first four months. This marks a dramatic…

The end of digital wandering and the death of the click

The uncontrolled proliferation of AI-generated sexual abuse material — why regulatory promises...

Whilst the UK Parliament is focused on banning phones from schools for under-16s, a far more urgent dimension of digital safeguarding is being neglected and misunderstood: AI-generated sexual abuse material. In late December 2025 and early 2026, a pivotal moment in the fight against online sexual abuse emerged, not through a legislative breakthrough, but through…

Social media — an artificial connection to the world

Social media consumes us all. Connecting feels easier than ever, with everyone being accessible at the tap of a button. However, its effects on consumers are undeniable; it commodifies social interaction, rewires our brains and ultimately disconnects its users from their loved ones. In an age of ai-dominated, algorithmic content, the concept of effortless interaction…

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Marina Caspe – Ceramic Artist

“The world is a beautiful place. I can not wait to teach you about an experience as smooth as velvet but sharp as a sharks tooth. As the sun peaks over the horizon, bus door shuts on a decrepit bus, a mother cradles her crying child, life is happening. The clock is ticking, and relationships…

The womb is a haunted house — looking to the works of...