As we get further into 2020, the unity that characterised the early stages of lockdown – ‘Clap for the NHS’, anyone? – has generally faded away, and have been replaced by political conflict and division. It wasn’t too long ago…
Surely, this is the biggest U-turn of them all? Last week, in a chaotic and delayed address to the nation, Boris Johnson set out England’s plans to be plunged into lockdown number 2, despite weeks of arguing against it in…
‘We do not care about trying to “control the narrative” and all that New Labour junk and this government will not be run by “comms grid”.’ Dominic Cummings wrote that in January 2020, in his infamous ‘weirdos and misfits’ blog…
The UK has entered a state of Stockholm syndrome. According to Google, this refers to when ‘hostages bond with their captors’ after facing abuse. The public has been quite literally in a state of captivity for months. Told to remain…
Predictably, everyone has been pretty outraged by the new (and now deleted) advert encouraging people to retrain and get a job in ‘cyber’. If you haven’t seen it, the ad (which features both HM government and CyberFirst logos) depicts a…
The 23rd of March feels like such a long time ago, doesn’t it? Now we’re living through October, a strange time where we await our next orders from politicians, and exist in a minefield of testing capacities, R-rates, excess deaths…
The United States remains the worst affected country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, and the virus shows no signs of leaving. Jails and prisons continue to have large clusters of Covid-19, and frontline workers in correctional facilities continue…
You’ve probably seen Dettol’s most recent adverts for TfL. Photos of them have spread like wildfire on social media, and they have been discussed endlessly in the advertising industry and beyond. And all for the wrong reasons. For anyone who…
In the latest Cormoran Strike detective series, Lethal White, on BBC One, Strike’s assistant Robin Ellacott switches from commuting by Tube to cycling into work. This, according to the series, has done wonders for her mental health. One can’t help…
It’s not a good time to be young. The generation gap is so wide that ‘luxury’ housing developers could even start building there – fleecing students for 80% of their income, no doubt. Cynicism is an easy philosophy to adopt…