To what extent do we feel connected to our roots, our past, our lineage? As humans we crave context…

Up and down on public escalators my eyes flicker over endlessly supine forms, repeated with the shoving insistence of propaganda…

Life seldom adheres to order, especially in the theatre…

Like a well-oiled machine, your parents held the door open and fed you to the belly of the city. In return, you got breakfast and a little bit braver…

Fast thinking Gets Things Done. But it is also the mental equivalent of jumping from cloud to cloud, going through never-ending levels of a video game that can only lead to the grave…

We see a multitude of cavalcading colour everywhere, and nobody knows how to use it better than marketing gurus...

The popular perception of a psychopath might still be the knife-wielding maniac, but Hare has challenged this view with his study of corporate psychopathy…

London is the most surveilled city in the world after Beijing, and proportionally to population size, the UK has as many surveillance cameras as China…

While London gentrifies and bleaches the diasporic palate of the area, the East London drill scene is at the very least, transcribing our history...

Coming from Ancient China to the West through the Silk Road, paper revolutionised how we communicate...

Who are these women you speak of, who can walk 5 miles in 6 inch heels and hold 7 different things in one hand, yet couldn’t undo a jar of pickles if their lives depended on it?

Music is being exploited, used as a decoy to manipulate us. What becomes your ‘favourite’ song will be guided by tech giants if you let them...

I knew it could only be one thing: the result of a fierce oven pizza habit. I had developed it over lockdown, and it had to stop...

Humans are fallible, sometimes they cheat. And though they do a fair amount of cheating the mundane – taxes, say, or maths tests – they also cheat their partners…

We have always been fascinated by bodies that defy categorisation and the terrifying, unknown possibilities that these humanlike inhuman creatures present...

The blue shade was synthesized accidentally in German scientist Johann Dippel’s laboratory, after he failed to alchemize gold...

Cold legs. Cornettos. Peeing in the sea. Where else would you find such a bizarre but strangely charming concoction of experiences? The seaside holiday is a British institution, a repository of our cultural identity...

I’m typing. If I stop typing for more than five seconds, everything I’ve written will be deleted. If I pause for just a moment, the text will start to fade and the edges of the screen will turn blood red. Just keep going. At least I’m writing. Is it good writing? I don’t know anymore. I was only trying to be productive...

For as long as people have been taking photos, they’ve been taking photos of themselves…

But why did green eyes become considered as specifically mystical? One probable explanation is that they are so rare: less than two percent of the world’s population are estimated to have green eyes...