…And what next as we reckon with the fallout? — The phrase “the most important election of our lifetime” is thrown out reliably every four years by candidates on both sides of the aisle trying to turn out as many of their supporters as possible. The ubiquity of the phrase makes it harder to recognise when the stakes really are…

The best, and most under-rated, music of 2021 — 2020 was a year of isolation and lockdown. As such, while many big-name musicians sat out the year due to the unique constraints they faced, smaller, and less commercial artists — used to working with limited resources — welled the mine of 2020’s hardship to create the year’s defining soundtrack…

Halyna Hutchin’s tragic death is a reminder of the shocking conditions employees are expected to work in — If you’ve turned on the news or opened up any social media app, even briefly this week, you’re almost certainly aware of the tragic accident that occurred on the set of ‘Rust’ (an upcoming Western) where Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchin and injured director Joel Souza.

Perhaps, what makes modern-day celebrity especially insufferable is something, ironically, rather relatable… — It’s no secret that mainstream music has become darker and mellower in recent years; the most significant, and hugely popular, debut album of the 2010s — Billie Eilish’s ‘When We All Fall Asleep…’ — was filled with tales of toxic relationships, drug addiction, death and suicidal ideation. Meanwhile, the hoards…

With it’s portrayal of violent white nationalism run amok, ‘The Forever Purge’ hits closer to home than any previous instalment of the film franchise — ‘The Purge’ franchise — for as much as I have admittedly enjoyed it through the years — has never felt as profound as it purports to be. The films all revolve around an America ruled by the “New Founding Fathers” who have instituted an annual one-day holiday where all crimes…

Courtney Love, Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple and the damning double standards of the music industry — Earlier this month, Courtney Love definitively ruled out a reunion of her band ‘Hole’; responsible for 1994’s classic ‘Live Through This’ and most recently, 2010’s ‘Nobody’s Daughter’. The collective response to the news seemed to be a shrug. In response to the announcement, Twitter users responded with remarks of “who…

Performative displays of allyship are no substitute for substantive activism — Pride Month, at it’s core, is a commemoration of rebellion; a period to honour and remember the 1969 Stonewall riots; where predominantly POC members of the LGBT+ community rioted in response to the police raid of the Stonewall Inn. The riot was a turning point in LGBT+ activism, which beforehand…

Black squares, Instagram infographics and “google it” — Over the last decade activism has slowly moved from the ‘IRL’ to the online. The last year has seen both an unparalleled rise in political discontent and historic restrictions on the ability to organise in person. As a result, the years-long trend towards online activism has accelerated exponentially. …

Why Trump’s 2016 opponents became his loudest supporters and why their grand plan isn’t paying off — When the GOP united behind Donald Trump back in 2016, after a factious primary which saw Trump personally disparage all of his opponents (and even, in some cases, his opponents’ wives), they were essentially making a deal with the devil. In short, they were allying themselves with a man they…