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Spooky Things to Do This Halloween: Art, Myth and Macabre Spectacle

4 November 2026 Culture Editor 0

Few seasonal celebrations hold a mirror up to human psychology quite like Halloween. It is a period of aesthetic transformation, where suburban driveways become theatrical staging grounds and the morbid is sanitised into festive play. […]

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    Covid-19 Triggered a Start-Up Boom

    Critical Overview: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a significant crisis for businesses across the globe. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that almost 400,000 UK companies closed in 2020, with a further 250,000 [...]
  • Mental health

    The Journey Through Loss: Understanding the Five Stages of Grief

    Grief is perhaps one of the most profoundly human experiences we will ever endure, a complex and often overwhelming cascade of emotions that can leave us feeling untethered and lost. We tend to associate it [...]
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    Elon Musk’s tweets spark rise in Twitter shares

    Critical Overview Elon Musk recently acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, as announced in a filing on Monday. Musk’s purchase, which was worth $2.9 billion as of the end of trading on Friday, made him [...]
  • Travel

    Sagrada Familia: The Iconic Temple of Barcelona

    A Critical Overview of the Sagrada Familia: Barcelona’s Iconic Basilica The Sagrada Familia is widely recognized as the symbol of Barcelona, attracting millions of visitors from around the world each year. The Expiatory Temple of [...]
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    Less Than Half of Britons Understand Credit Scores

    TSB research reveals confusion around credit scores A recent study by TSB has shed light on the misunderstandings and misconceptions surrounding credit scores among UK consumers. The study found that a mere 46% of Britons [...]

The Great Unravelling: A Three-Decade Post-Mortem of the Small Screen

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1 May 2026 0

There was a time, back when the ‘90s were still smelling of teen spirit and optimism, that television was a polite guest in our living rooms. It wore a tie, it told jokes with a […]

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7 September 2022 0

My personal inspirational leader, that fancy blogger from Nantes, got up really early this morning. She was active, slim, and adored pear spiced latte in October, mint latte in April, yet drank only black coffee […]

The Silicon Sovereign: Mapping the Hegemony of the Algorithmic Age

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1 May 2026 0

By late April 2026, the question is no longer whether AI has arrived, but whether it has left any room for the rest of us to breathe. We are three and a half years into […]

Our Artful Brain, Changes and a Cunning Old Man

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7 September 2022 0

People keep talking about changes and the need to evolve with the course of time, especially nowadays, when times are challenging and uncertain. Yet, the only thing people are usually quite reluctant to pronounce in […]

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CRASH

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1 February 2010 Comments Off on CRASH

CRASH Feb 11 – Apr 1 2010, London, United Kingdom, Europe. 6-24 Britannia St, London WC1X 9JD Diverse Taxonomy As an exhibition CRASH connects the viewer to concepts, images, objects and texts of a visceral […] […]

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Tony Morgan: Some films (and videos) 1969 to 1973

Thomas Dane Gallery: 09 Dec – 29 Jan 2012, Free, Photo from gallery website Background The work comprises a highly visual and stylised investigation into the heterotopic world of artifice created by the camera apparatus. […] […]

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Travel

France Lifts COVID Restrictions Across the Country

28 April 2022 0

Critical Overview: France has recently lifted travel restrictions for unvaccinated travelers from the UK, allowing them to enter without any essential reason. This decision has come as a relief to many UK travelers who haven’t […]

Health

Lucy Letby: The Dark Side of a Trusted Caregiver

5 February 2025 Comments Off on Lucy Letby: The Dark Side of a Trusted Caregiver

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Dak’Art 2008

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Dak’Art, “Mirror”, 2008, Senegal, Africa The Mirror The dialogue of the DAK’ART biennale 2008 is framed around the theme Mirror. This conceptual device is employed as a premise by which the curators exact a discursive […] […]

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Clubbing and Covid passports: balancing safety and civil liberties.

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28 July 2021 0
The Impending Controversy of Mandatory Vaccinations for Club Entry On 19 July 2021, at 00:01, nightclubs in England were able to reopen after more than a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, [...]

The Sound of Silence: Success, Slurs, and the BBC’s BAFTA Blunder

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8 April 2026 0
When Involuntary Tics Meet Institutional Failure The 79th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) were supposed to be the coronation of Sinners. Ryan Coogler’s Southern Gothic masterpiece, a film that deftly navigates the trauma of the [...]
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Creative Ideation & AI Collaborations – From AI Characters to Characters Made by AI?

11 May 2026 0
For as long as we have had novels, cinema, story telling, technology has emerged as a popular global fascination enriched by mecha, ai, androids and the future, often viewed through a lens of dystopian imagination [...]
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The Art of Couture at the 2026 Met Gala

22 May 2026 0
For the past half-decade, the global red carpet has seemingly devolved into a wearying parade of hyper-exposed desperate click-bait stunts calculated purely to boost publicity. However, May 2026 has delivered a sharp, much needed and [...]
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Wireless Technologies Widely Used for IoT Applications

29 July 2021 0
Critical Overview: IoT Wireless Technology The Internet of Things (IoT) is a ubiquitous term in the tech world, although, the majority of the non-tech populace remains unaware of their connection with it. IoT technology connects [...]
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Radio Personality Tim Westwood Faces Allegations of Sexual Misconduct and Abuse of Power

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Critical Overview DJ Tim Westwood, a prominent figure in the British music industry, has been accused of sexual misconduct by seven women, all of whom are black. The allegations, which include claims of unwanted sexual [...]
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