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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...
Culture And Chaos

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...

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…

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.
Unfiltered Voices

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...

“AI makes the arts accessible”: sounds like a skill issue
For centuries, art has been a process, often slow, difficult, and deeply human. Learning anatomy, understanding light, and building a style — these are not barriers to accessibility. They’re the very bones of artistic expression. But in the age of AI, all that is being tossed out in favour of instant gratification and zero skill.

1,200 for a shoebox: renting in your 20s feels like a scam we’ve all agreed to call normal
There’s something darkly comical about handing over half your paycheck to live in a glorified shoebox with mystery stains and a front door that doesn’t fully close. But for most of us in our twenties, that’s not a quirky phase of adulthood — it’s the plan. Renting in...
What Now?

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...

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...
Public Sh*t Show

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...

‘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...

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...
Tech-ing the P*ss

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...

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...

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...