Thought
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Can you Eat the Rich? Notes on Regurgitating Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette may be long dead and buried, but chances are you’re consuming her anyway. Yum!
Celebrating the Dark Side of the Festive Season
The truth is, Christmas has always brought a sombre note along with the snow…
Rebel Yell! Are You Joining the Reader’s Resistance?
‘People are constantly returning to what’s handmade and hand-drawn. There’s an almost religious shame about being online all the time, and that sells books...’
A Sense of Belonging: On Origin Stories, Memory, Identity
To what extent do we feel connected to our roots, our past, our lineage? As humans we crave context…
Rebel Yell! What If We Put More Clothes On?
Up and down on public escalators my eyes flicker over endlessly supine forms, repeated with the shoving insistence of propaganda…
Face Off: The Invisible Enemy
London is the most surveilled city in the world after Beijing, and proportionally to population size, the UK has as many surveillance cameras as China…
In Defence of the British Seaside
Cold legs. Cornettos. Peeing in the sea. Where else would you find such a bizarre but strangely charming concoction of experiences? The seaside holiday is a British institution, a repository of our cultural identity...