Caught in the respectability trap
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...
Category: Society
Divide and Conquer: The Corporate Coup d’Etat
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...
Can we stop recording ourselves doing good deeds, please?
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...
In Hungary, tip your doctor if you want to live
Money talks, dogs bark, goes a Hungarian saying, and nowhere is this more true than in the health business. Yes, indeed, business. Because in Hungary, despite a national health insurance program...
Hulk Hogan’s triumphant return presages more rehabilitated stars
Hulk Hogan just returned to thunderous applause after three years in exile. In 2015, Hogan was erased from the company’s canon. Not only scrubbed from the website and banned from being talked...
If Brexit means Brexit, then May should mean May
If there’s one thing I’ll never forgive Jacob Rees-Mogg for, it’s for making me very somewhat glad that Theresa May retained her seat as Prime Minister. This week, as a bunch of men achieved...
Attitudes to consent and rape in the UK are terrifying
New research for the End Violence Against Women Coalition, carried out by YouGov, has shown devastating attitudes towards sexual consent and rape in the UK. Their report begins: “There is a crisis...
Spare me the Bush hagiography
President George H.W. Bush had a massive Washington sendoff yesterday, complete with heartfelt speeches and a dazzling array of hagiographic headlines; to read about the former president today, one...
Can we take the colonialism out of disaster relief?
As the disaster of capitalism and capitalism-driven climate change fuels larger and more devastating ecological disasters, such as monstrous hurricanes and record breaking wildfires, the need for...
Why Sammy Woodhouse’s rapist should not have a say in her son’s life
A few years ago, the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire became synonymous with a child sexual exploitation scandal where girls had been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of older men. It...