RIOT AND RECAP: THE QUIZ

RIOT AND RECAP: THE QUIZ

Welcome to the latest edition of Riot and Recap.
It’s been another week of joy here in batsh*it bonkers Britain, so why not relive it all and test your knowledge?
Grab a brew (with tap water, while you still can) and wade through the chaos – and sewage – with us.

Why the property ladder feels like more snakes than ladders for young brits

If you’re under 35 and haven’t bought a house yet, you’ve probably felt the weight of it. Not just the financial pressure, but also the cultural expectations. The nagging sense that you’re falling behind an invisible adulting schedule. Your parents did it, your boss...

When the system cracks, Reform UK might just slip in

As voters in the Hamilton constituency heads to the polls, a once-fringe party is creeping into the mainstream. Reform UK’s surge in Scotland signals more than voter frustration - it’s a red flag waving in plain sight. Behind the anti-migrant soundbites and “ordinary...

Hey Ho, It’s a Pirates life for me: Piracy and preservation

As media vanishes behind paywalls , digital piracy step in, not just to steal but preserve what corporations would rather let it sink Before your teacher slapped Narnia for the 5th time in the film club in year three, you were treated to another masterpiece of film...

Your brain on AI: How algorithms are quietly rewiring the way you think

In 2025, artificial intelligence isn’t just assisting us, it’s subtly reshaping how we think, decide and even feel. Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for your job, it’s coming for your brain. Every time you ask ChatGPT to write you a cover letter, let TikTok...

Spreadsheets and silence: the classist curriculum

We need to stop pretending. Fixing our inherently unequal education system is never going to be done. But narrowing opportunities and killing creativity in state schools is not helping solve the unbalanced equation given to children. Despite claims from the Tories...

All Aboard (Maybe): Labour’s £15.6bn Transport Plan Hits the Rails

You know things are bad  when Britain’s trains become a political love language. Delayed, overcrowded and eye-wateringly expensive. Our transport system is a national joke without a punchline, but this week, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves tried to flip the...

High Stakes, Low Morals: Welcome to the Streamer Casino Circus

Inside the world of gambling streamers where addiction is content, fortunes are fake and the house always wins There’s no better encapsulation for late-stage internet culture than watching a grown man in a neon-lit room haemorrhage $10,000 on digital fruit machines...

Toxic tampons: Pesticides found in UK period products

You’d think that in 2025, basic period care wouldn’t be contaminated with toxic chemicals, but welcome to late stage capitalism where even bleeding safely has a price tag. A new report from PAN UK, the Women’s Environmental Network and the Pesticide collaboration just...

Queer joy is a threat and that’s why we need more of it

Pride month isn’t only a time for celebration, it is a reminder that joy for many LGBTQ+ people is hard won, in a world that often meets queerness with hostility, just existing with pride is a radical act. To live openly, to love without shame, to laugh in a world...

Objection: legal jargon is injustice

Ignorantia Legis Neminem Excusat. A foundational principle of law. For normal people who are yet to have their Elle Woods moment, or casually take up Latin, this legal phrase means ignorance of the law excuses no one. Ironic. Because if the law is meant to uphold...

‘Surrogacy Slaves’ – How Georgia is obstructing women’s rights

At least one hundred Thai women are currently being held in Georgia by Chinese gang members, in a Handmaid’s Tale-esque limbo. Their passports were confiscated, and a fee has been imposed on their freedom. Like cooped chickens, they are being exploited for their human...

Tweets to Tyranny: How Elon Musk bought Political Power

Explore the hidden election that empowered Elon Musk, and how his increased political autonomy is a parasite on democracy. I asked a friend of mine what he thought of Elon Musk, “powerful” he said. I thought about his response repeatedly in the days that followed. How...

Starmer’s defence review: when budgets Trump people’s needs

In a rare moment of clarity on defence spending by the UK government, Keir Starmer has announced a huge expansion. Avoidable deaths are happening under his nose, both at home and across the world. Feeding the war machine, this spending is out of control and out of...

Face the Bias: How facial recognition fails people of colour

Facial recognition technology is the new thing of the future, you see it everywhere, when you unlock your phone, in the airport it’s like a friend that is here to stay. While it is built to detect faces, it somehow struggles with the basic concept that not all brown...

A turkey voting for Christmas? The unexpected Reform Voters

Reform’s message is finding support in unexpected places — including among some Hong Kong immigrants in the UK. Is it difficult to imagine someone fleeing to the UK due to political turmoil, supporting a party that is calling for stricter immigration controls? This...

Concrete Cruelty: How hostile architecture designs people out of cities

Jacob Rees-Mogg asleep on bench in house of commons. Hostile architecture bench with metal dividers Hostile architecture: The bench with a metal divider, the metal spikes poking through the concrete, the slanted roof of the shelter that lets the rain in. These aren’t...

Who Needs a Doctor? : How the NHS Crisis Has Fuelled ADHD Self-Diagnosis

Every symptom sounds painfully familiar. Your mind races, your focus slips and the comments seem to describe you perfectly. Could this be ADHD? Before you know it, you’re convinced and you’re diagnosing yourself as you piece it all together online and made a...

RIOT AND RECAP: THE QUIZ

Welcome to the latest edition of Riot and Recap.
It’s been another week of joy here in batsh*it bonkers Britain, so why not relive it all and test your knowledge?
Grab a brew (with tap water, while you still can) and wade through the chaos – and sewage – with us.

Swipe right on loneliness: The rise of AI love

Capitalism saw your loneliness and coded it into an AI girlfriend. If you don’t know it already, the new face of intimacy is synthetic, submissive and available for  just £14.99 a month. AI girlfriends are the ultimate wet dream to have someone at the click of...

Disposable Vapes go Up in Smoke

A ban on the sale of disposable vapes is set to come into effect on Sunday, the 1st of June Say goodbye to your blue razz and strawberry lemonade Elf Bars because those fruity lung killers will be more difficult to score after Sunday, when a long-awaited plan to ban...

What you need to know about the charges against Andrew Tate

With the UK officially  confirming  the 21 charges Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate will face when they return to the UK, including cases of rape, trafficking and sexual exploitation. It’s time to drop the memes, kill the cult worship, and actually look at what...

Bricks, mortar and red tape: How will Labour reach their Housing goals?

Labour's 1.5M homes by 2029: how are their home building plans holding up? Was this manifesto goal ever achievable? Scrutiny grows. Not to beat around a brick wall but the UK is currently in the midst of a housing crisis. According to the National Housing Federation,...

Burning Money: Why the Winter Fuel Payment should never have been universal

Everyone should have a warm, safe place to call home - but heating a Surrey Hills mansion isn’t cheap. The drawing room alone takes an age to warm. Then there’s the Aga. And the sauna. So snatching £200-300 from the trembling hands of pensioners might be a bit cold....

The Rest is Politics : It’s not all ancient histories

It's one of the nation's favourite political podcasts but the messy legacies of it's hosts make it hard to love. With 1.2 million monthly views and millions of listeners ‘The Rest is Politics’ has proven to be one of the UK’s most popular podcasts but as I find myself...

UK trans rights under attack: Not the threat, but the target

Trans people are not the problem and they are not a threat, but they are being threatened, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at headlines, right now we’re watching a full blown moral panic unfold in real time. Across the UK a number of political attacks are...

Heinous Housing

Let’s not sugar-coat it: Housing in the UK in 2025 feels dystopian. Like you’re competing in a brutal hunger games reboot. Except the price is rocket high rent prices that will have you living pay check to pay check and expect you to be grateful. If you’re aged 18-35,...

Post graduate apprenticeships as the government axe funding

image credit : https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottishgovernment/ Government funding for higher-level apprenticeships will be axed, in the hopes of getting Younger people working. Apprenticeships have offered an alternative to university, where apprentices work and...

 Mission Slimpossible: The Weight of Secrecy

One in ten women are currently taking weight loss injections, but how many would tell you they are? GLP-1 medications have been viciously stigmatised and criticised online. We’ve spoken to those jabbing for joy and those who are secretly using them. If needles make you squeamish, I suggest you look away…

Tommy Robinson released early

Tommy Robinson speaking at an event Guess who’s back, back again. Tommy Robinson - Britain’s favourite far-right attention seeker.  Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, in case you forgot that he used to be a mortgage fraudster before becoming a walking...

Bonnie Blue’s Bonkathon: it’s not just sex that sells, it’s sexism

By now Bonnie Blue needs no introduction, but perhaps one of the thousand men who went to have sex with her does. He describes the event as a ‘meet and jeet’, and thinks the men that went are losers. We’re stripping it back (not so nude) to explore why Bonnie Blue profits from the patriarchy and why extreme content creation can be harmful in more ways than just physical. Strap in, (or on), as we put the story to bed once and for all.

Inequality isn’t a glitch in this rigged game of life – it’s the design. One step foward feels like 10 shoves back. When everyone’s dealt a different hand, don’t just be mad at the players, but the system.

Keep an eye out for the Chance Cards across our site – a reminder of the broken rules in this rat race.

THE FIGHT HOUSE: TRUMP DUMPED BY ELON

There’s a Taylor Swift song out there pending, because a bromance has truly crumbled. It’s not just breaking news dear readers, it’s breaking our beaten hearts. Perhaps the line up of Love Island being released was too tempting for the two.

Why the property ladder feels like more snakes than ladders for young brits

If you’re under 35 and haven’t bought a house yet, you’ve probably felt the weight of it. Not just the financial pressure, but also the cultural expectations. The nagging sense that you’re falling behind an invisible adulting schedule. Your parents did it, your boss...

When the system cracks, Reform UK might just slip in

As voters in the Hamilton constituency heads to the polls, a once-fringe party is creeping into the mainstream. Reform UK’s surge in Scotland signals more than voter frustration - it’s a red flag waving in plain sight. Behind the anti-migrant soundbites and “ordinary...

All Aboard (Maybe): Labour’s £15.6bn Transport Plan Hits the Rails

You know things are bad  when Britain’s trains become a political love language. Delayed, overcrowded and eye-wateringly expensive. Our transport system is a national joke without a punchline, but this week, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves tried to flip the...

Toxic tampons: Pesticides found in UK period products

You’d think that in 2025, basic period care wouldn’t be contaminated with toxic chemicals, but welcome to late stage capitalism where even bleeding safely has a price tag. A new report from PAN UK, the Women’s Environmental Network and the Pesticide collaboration just...

Queer joy is a threat and that’s why we need more of it

Pride month isn’t only a time for celebration, it is a reminder that joy for many LGBTQ+ people is hard won, in a world that often meets queerness with hostility, just existing with pride is a radical act. To live openly, to love without shame, to laugh in a world...

Starmer’s defence review: when budgets Trump people’s needs

In a rare moment of clarity on defence spending by the UK government, Keir Starmer has announced a huge expansion. Avoidable deaths are happening under his nose, both at home and across the world. Feeding the war machine, this spending is out of control and out of...

RIOT AND RECAP: THE QUIZ

Welcome to the latest edition of Riot and Recap.
It’s been another week of joy here in batsh*it bonkers Britain, so why not relive it all and test your knowledge?
Grab a brew (with tap water, while you still can) and wade through the chaos – and sewage – with us.

Disposable Vapes go Up in Smoke

A ban on the sale of disposable vapes is set to come into effect on Sunday, the 1st of June Say goodbye to your blue razz and strawberry lemonade Elf Bars because those fruity lung killers will be more difficult to score after Sunday, when a long-awaited plan to ban...

What you need to know about the charges against Andrew Tate

With the UK officially  confirming  the 21 charges Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate will face when they return to the UK, including cases of rape, trafficking and sexual exploitation. It’s time to drop the memes, kill the cult worship, and actually look at what...

Bricks, mortar and red tape: How will Labour reach their Housing goals?

Labour's 1.5M homes by 2029: how are their home building plans holding up? Was this manifesto goal ever achievable? Scrutiny grows. Not to beat around a brick wall but the UK is currently in the midst of a housing crisis. According to the National Housing Federation,...

Post graduate apprenticeships as the government axe funding

image credit : https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottishgovernment/ Government funding for higher-level apprenticeships will be axed, in the hopes of getting Younger people working. Apprenticeships have offered an alternative to university, where apprentices work and...

 Mission Slimpossible: The Weight of Secrecy

One in ten women are currently taking weight loss injections, but how many would tell you they are? GLP-1 medications have been viciously stigmatised and criticised online. We’ve spoken to those jabbing for joy and those who are secretly using them. If needles make you squeamish, I suggest you look away…

Tommy Robinson released early

Tommy Robinson speaking at an event Guess who’s back, back again. Tommy Robinson - Britain’s favourite far-right attention seeker.  Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, in case you forgot that he used to be a mortgage fraudster before becoming a walking...

Bonnie Blue’s Bonkathon: it’s not just sex that sells, it’s sexism

By now Bonnie Blue needs no introduction, but perhaps one of the thousand men who went to have sex with her does. He describes the event as a ‘meet and jeet’, and thinks the men that went are losers. We’re stripping it back (not so nude) to explore why Bonnie Blue profits from the patriarchy and why extreme content creation can be harmful in more ways than just physical. Strap in, (or on), as we put the story to bed once and for all.

New Police Guidelines on Abortion: What That Means for Women in the UK

Protest with placard that says 'Keep Our Right to Choose' If you thought losing a pregnancy was already heartbreaking enough, here’s a grim new reality: in the UK, police are now being encouraged to treat miscarriages, stillbirths, and abortions like criminal...

Is your Dad being radicalised? The GB News effect 

One minute your Dad’s a normal bloke complaining about the price of a Freddo, then there’s some off-hand comments about 'woke culture ruining everything', and then, before you know it, he's glued to GB news, spewing conspiracy theories about climate change and sharing...

Baby steps to big change: the world’s first ‘Dad Strike’

In the UK dads and non-birthing parents receive just two pathetic weeks of paternity leave, and that’s not just low, it’s insulting. It’s actually the worst in Europe, and we shouldn’t have to accept that.

Culture And Chaos

Objection: legal jargon is injustice

Objection: legal jargon is injustice

Ignorantia Legis Neminem Excusat. A foundational principle of law. For normal people who are yet to have their Elle Woods moment, or casually take up Latin, this legal phrase means ignorance of the law excuses no one. Ironic. Because if the law is meant to uphold...

Unfiltered Voices

Heinous Housing

Heinous Housing

Let’s not sugar-coat it: Housing in the UK in 2025 feels dystopian. Like you’re competing in a brutal hunger games reboot. Except the price is rocket high rent prices that will have you living pay check to pay check and expect you to be grateful. If you’re aged 18-35,...

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