Fashwave: the far-right phenomenon with Futurist forefathers
In darker corners of the internet there are growing communities of alt-right meme-machines mocking liberals and advocating white supremacy. However, recently another facet of the movement has emerged: fashwave, the…
Man spends two years in hospital after refusing to leave
A Norfolk hospital has recently been forced to take legal action against one of its own patients in order to make him leave – after a stay of over two…
This Week in History: Colonisation of Australia begins, 1788
This Thursday marks Australia Day – 229 years since the first fleet of British ships arrived in Port Jackson in New South Wales, and the beginning of British sovereignty in…
This week in history: the birth of Pablo Picasso, October 25th 1881
Today marks 135 years since the birth of renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. One of the best- known artists of the twentieth century, Picasso is perhaps most famous as co-founder…
Are CEO’s psychopaths?
Australian psychologists released research three weeks ago which showed that, on average, one in five CEO’s are psychopaths. The study, which focused on a group of 261 senior business professionals…
Kim Jong-un: comic relief or supervillain?
Kim Jong-un reached seemingly impossible new levels of paranoia this week as the infamous North Korean leader imposed a nation-wide ban on sarcasm. Anything which may be considered an indirect…
How to avoid destroying your new flat dynamic
It’s the time of year again where Edinburgh regains what some regard to be the noisiest and most annoying proportion of the population. No, not the Fringe – I’m of…
What’s happening in the murky world of student internships?
Arguably one of the biggest, yet perhaps most subtle indicators of how British society has changed in the last few decades is the rise of the student internship. What was…