Review: ‘This House’ and our Real Life Theatre Of The Absurd
Photo: National Theatre
Last week the National Theatre streamed James Graham’s 2012 play This House on YouTube. It tells the story of the British Parliament...
Why I’ve Left Twitter
Quitting Twitter shouldn’t have been as hard as it was, but I felt a small part of myself die as my finger met...
Rogan Quits YouTube for Spotify
Joe Rogan’s departure from YouTube to a lucrative Spotify contract is a welcome, if small, step towards pluralism in social media. Estimated to be...
Why We Need To Stop Clapping For Carers
Photo: Reuters.com
It’s funny how often in life the bizarre and out of character quickly becomes the norm. We got used to calling Opal...
The Morality of Lockdown
Whilst many people seem to believe that the only thing wrong with the UK Government’s response to Covid-19 was failure to implement the...
Interview: John Barry on the sixth Male Psychology Conference
Next month sees the sixth Male Psychology Conference take place at UCL. Here, we interview Dr John Barry, the lead organiser of the conference....
We need architecture based on beauty – not economic expediency
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter"
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