Yesterday, it was 12 months since the horrific fire at Grenfell Towers in London. 72 people died and many more were injured, and a public inquiry is ongoing to look at what caused the blaze and how...
Crap, you have stolen your roommate’s burrito. It happens to the best of us. Don’t have a roommate? I assume you’ve stolen something at least once from the communal fridge at work/accidentally...
Until this week, many people had never heard of “incels”, a term short for “involuntary celibates” that describes a certain kind of man. It’s a man who has never had sex, or who has trouble...
When you donate to a massive charity like Oxfam, you know that some of your cash goes to maintain the shiny corporate image of the organisation but you also imagine the bulk of your donation going...
While most British cops are not allowed to carry guns, the use of tasers has somehow slipped through the net. Nobody seemed to vote on it, yet the police carry them regardless. However, it has been...
Along with red postboxes, double-decker buses and old-fashioned phone boxes, black taxis are kind of iconic when tourists think of a holiday to the UK. London, in particular, is characterised by the...
Recently, Donald Trump’s claim that he turned down TIME’s opportunity to be Person of the Year again (though he called it Man of the Year) was disputed by the publication. I saw speculation that...
In March of this year, a pregnant woman went to a police station in London to report that she had been kidnapped and raped in Germany for a period of six months. The police sent her to Havens, a...
Death and taxes are supposed to be the two inevitabilities of life but, for some of the most privileged, the latter appear to be being widely avoided by sneaky investments in tax havens abroad. As...
On Monday, the first in what are likely to be a series of indictments naming Trump cronies came down, sweeping up Paul Manafort and his former business partner, Richard Gates. The 31-page document...