By Jack Marley
Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for negotiating ...
By Leah Kardos
Kate Bush’s visionary 1985 concept album Hounds of Love was the second she had produced on her own (after The Dreaming in 1982), and the first recorded in ...
By David Gallardo-Pujol, Jordi Renom Pinsach and Laura Viñals Vilà
Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in ...
By Adam Taylor
The social media platform TikTok has become a cultural phenomenon, influencing the behaviour and taste of its users in almost every area of life. From dance trends ...
By Catherine Gegout
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader, Mohammed Deif. The ...
By Philip Almond
Netflix’s upcoming biblical biopic, Mary, has been attacked on social media because the title character and her husband Joseph are being played by Israeli actors.
The ...
By Evangeline Mantzioris
Matcha has experienced a surge in popularity in recent months, leading to reports of global shortages and price increases.
If you haven’t been caught up in ...
By Naomi Braithwaite
The Fashion and Textile Museum’s new exhibition, Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London, surveys the glamorous and often outrageous fashion, music and clubbing scene in the ...
By Sam Poyser
When bombs tore through two crowded pubs in central Birmingham on the evening of November 21 1974, they claimed the lives of 21 people and injured 220 more. They also led ...
By Laura Minor
The latest series of Channel 4’s reality dating show Married at First Sight UK has sparked widespread criticism for normalising harmful behaviour. The charities Women’s Aid ...
By Debra Benita Shaw
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital this week won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against ...
Almost all of Donald Trump’s nominees for critical positions within his presidential administration have been non-traditional. Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth was just named as Trump’s possible defence ...
By Alyssa Choat
For its recent Spring/Summer 2025 show, fashion brand Diesel filled a runway with mounds of denim offcuts, making a spectacle of its efforts to reduce waste.
Haunting ...
By Robert Dover
When he claimed victory in the early hours of November 6, Donald Trump said he was a man of his word. A hallmark of his second term as ...
By Zackary Okun Dunivin
There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has ...
By Rachel Williamson
Following the global success of down-under comedies What We Do in the Shadows and Flight of the Conchords, Antipodean humour has quickly become associated with the deadpan ...
By Hind Elhinnawy
More than two years have passed since a young woman called Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested in Iran for allegedly not wearing her ...
By Charles Z. Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tammara Soma
For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the ...
By Mike Lee
For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us from these ancient sleep-wake cycles, but there is evidence sunlight ...
Emma Shortis, RMIT University
On the Saturday before Election Day, I travelled from Washington DC to Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend one of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ last campaign ...
By Chris Baumann
Do you own any memorabilia depicting Elvis, Princess Diana, David Bowie, Prince or Michael Jackson? Perhaps a beloved t-shirt, a favourite mug, a special keyring or a ...
By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek and Robert Tomczak
Throughout history, queens have often been judged on their looks. Beauty standards shaped early-modern queenship. Even today, royal women ...
By Alexa Scarlata
The Australian commissioning team at Netflix has had a pretty good run over the past 12 months. In January, the adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows ...