One year in, Labour has a surprising amount to celebrate. But you wouldn’t know it
A year in, Starmer still has a mountain to climb. Flickr/Number 10 , CC BY-NC-ND In the build-up to the 2024 election, Keir Starmer worked hard to show that his party could run Britain better than the Tories. He promised...
Will the Oasis reunion usher in a Britpop summer – or is it just a marketing ploy?
Ink Drop/Shutterstock The trend for naming summers has become something of a cultural phenomenon. Think for example of 2019, which was branded a hot girl summer, inspired by rapper Megan Thee Stallions song. In 2021 there...

The existentialist philosophy of Lana Del Rey
Speaking to Myspace as an upcoming artist in 2013, Lana Dey Rey said that the vision of making [her] life a work of art was what inspired her to create her music video for her breakthrough single, Video Games (2011). The...

Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies. Why is pronatalism on the rise around the world?
In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly 900) for giving birth and raising their babies. This new measure, introduced in the past few months across ten...
Salmonella cases are at ten-year high in England – here’s what you can do to keep yourself safe
_Salmonella_ causes salmonellosis -- an infection that typically results in vomiting and diarrhoea. Lightspring/ Shutterstock Salmonella cases in England are the highest theyve been in a decade, according to recent UK...

How the myth of ‘Blitz spirit’ defined and divided London after 7/7
The Blitz spirit is one of Britains most enduring national myths the stories we tell ourselves about who we were, and who we still believe we are today. Growing up among football fans, I heard constant nostalgic refrains...
A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research
A male capercaillie showing off its colours. Rolands Linejs/Shutterstock Conserving species can be a complicated affair. Take this dilemma. After being hunted to near extinction, numbers of a native predator are recovering...