by Maddie Stock | Jun 5, 2025 | Home Page Top Story, International News, News Top Story, Politics Top Story, UK News
My incredible photo of Elon and Trump 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...
by Angela Garcia | Jun 5, 2025 | Home Page Top Story, Housing
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...
by Cammy Todd Van Jaarsveld | Jun 5, 2025 | UK News
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...
by Talhah Azher | Jun 5, 2025 | Tech
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...
by Angela Garcia | Jun 4, 2025 | Tech
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...
by Andrea Lewis | Jun 4, 2025 | Public shit show
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...
by Angela Garcia | Jun 4, 2025 | News Top Story, UK News
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...
by Talhah Azher | Jun 3, 2025 | Tech
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...
by Angela Garcia | Jun 3, 2025 | Public shit show, UK News
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...
by Angela Garcia | Jun 3, 2025 | Opinion top story, Rights and Rage
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...
by Andrea Lewis | Jun 2, 2025 | Culture and Chaos
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...
by Jess Elson | Jun 2, 2025 | Public shit show
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...
by Sam Juckes | Jun 2, 2025 | Culture and Chaos
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...
by Andrea Lewis | Jun 2, 2025 | UK News
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...
by Angela Garcia | Jun 2, 2025 | Tech
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...
by Jimmy Tse | Jun 2, 2025 | Culture and Chaos
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...
by Cammy Todd Van Jaarsveld | Jun 2, 2025 | Public shit show, Rights and Rage
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...
by Jane Ampiah | Jun 2, 2025 | Public shit show
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...
by Andrea Lewis | May 30, 2025 | Home Page Top Story, quiz
Welcome to the latest edition of Riot and Recap. It’s been another week of joy here in batsh*t 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....
by Angela Garcia | May 30, 2025 | Tech
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...
by Talhah Azher | May 30, 2025 | UK News
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...
by Angela Garcia | May 29, 2025 | News Top Story, UK News
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...
by Talhah Azher | May 29, 2025 | Housing, UK News
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...
by Andrea Lewis | May 29, 2025 | Public shit show
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...
by Talhah Azher | May 28, 2025 | Opinion
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...
by Angela Garcia | May 28, 2025 | Opinion, Rights and Rage
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...
by Angela Garcia | May 28, 2025 | Housing, Opinion
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,...
by Talhah Azher | May 27, 2025 | UK News
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...
by Maddie Stock | May 27, 2025 | Culture and Chaos, Top Story
I’ll tell you something I’ve never told anyone before. I was fired. It was a few years ago and a colleague had heard my boss say: “that’s not the girl I hired, the girl I hired was thin.” This was partially true, I was hired before a back injury and I was fit and...
by Cammy Todd Van Jaarsveld | May 27, 2025 | UK News
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...
