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The Definition of Insanity: The Tory misdiagnosis of Britain’s mental health crisis

A misdiagnosis has been made — and our nation’s mental wellbeing will continue to deteriorate until the true source is identified.

Adventure in Solitude

...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”

Grief Sequence

The problem with discussing grief is with words: the ways they fail and succeed to signify themselves.

Tongue-Tied

Finding yourself aboard the Taipei metro, a voice over the tannoy states the station towards which you are heading in clear-cut Mandarin.

Hyper-Mechanical Reproduction

In the last twenty years, big budget studio cinema has begun to account for most global box office sales.

Women of the World, Work!

Novels about work have become ubiquitous.

Two More Years

Paris was tense on election day. Just outside a polling centre in in Le Marais voters tore down photos of incumbent president Macron.

In the Beginning was the Word

'Criticism is, in its highest development, simply a mood’.

Eyes to the Right

'Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are’.

Green New Deal?

The late sociologist Bruno Latour and his collaborator Nikolaj Schultz are at the forefront of a newly conceptualised ecological battle.

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