Welcome to 2019, gentle readers! Big things lie in store for all of us, so start off this, the first full week of the year, with some good reads! As long as you’re here, why not subscribe to...
If a government minister declares a major incident, you imagine something life-changing and devastating has happened. A bomb has gone off or a train has derailed, a coach has crashed or people have...
You may have heard that Saturn is losing its rings at a catastrophic rate — but have you also heard about the upcoming heat death of the universe? The science on the latter is a bit less concrete,...
The reveal trailer for the fifth installment of Electronic Arts and DICE’s acclaimed Battlefield series was…odd. It was the first time the shooter series returned to World War II since its...
2018 was a rough and wild year for all of us, so we thought we ought to press pause today and look back on some of our favourite publications (your favourite, it turns out, was the Russian propaganda...
Imagine you’re in a restaurant and a hush descends across all the guests. You look around and see, in the far corner, a man who has gone down on one knee, open ring box in hand, proposing to the...
Speaking of letting people enjoy things, let’s talk about… respectability politics. The dark side of embracing the personal as political is definitely the moment we start policing ourselves to...
Thanks to Canadian filmmakers Mark Archbarand and Jennifer Abbott’s 2003 doc The Corporation (which was subsequently turned into the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss our most popular post last week…Júlia Roth's expose of 'gratitude money,' the supposedly voluntary...
It’s the time of year when a lot of people turn their thoughts to charity. Perhaps it’s the freezing weather that makes us grateful for a warm home and hyper aware of those who have nowhere to...