WELCOME to the age of None Of The Above – a crisis of competence in the West’s political class that can’t be solved at the ballot box.
THE culture war has fundamentally broken Britain’s ability to engage with reality ...
LAST year, when professional surfer Sarah Brady shared text messages she had allegedly received from her former boyfriend, actor Jonah Hill, the internet was abuzz with condemnation of the coercive nature of them...
SEARCH beneath the rubble of Gaza and you will find, among the blood and the grief, another great casualty of Israel’s brutal onslaught on Palestine – the broken remnants of the West’s self-imposed moral authority over the world.
THE week following the sentencing of Brianna Ghey’s killers was an eye-opener for many – though not for those who have been the target of the political class’s culture wars these past seven years.
ON the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the subject of “intent” is paramount. Intent is what separates genocide from other war crimes. It is a unique level of criminality that is not often easy to prove.
IF war is hell, there is no war in Gaza for Israel – not while IDF soldiers continue to have such a raucous good time in the ruins of Palestine.
THERE'S a lot of variation in what defines "punk" as a subculture. For many, it’s a music scene defined by its challenges to authoritarianism and white supremacy.
THE government of the Republic of South Africa will later this week take its case against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
AS a millennial, I find it difficult to pinpoint what I’d consider to be the last “normal” year of my life. The economic crash of 2008 was a definitive shifting point for most of us, and the rapidity with which the hallmarks of late-stage capitalism have come to define these years is, even now, still a little destabilising – soaring wealth inequality, exploitative labour practices, environmental degradation and the over-commodification of the necessary and unnecessary alike.
