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Social Rules and Sexual Misconduct – What Cornell Carries into the World:
I was working at the Excel in London when I took out my phone, checking my manager group chat. Eyes glued to my screen, I went deaf, ignoring my colleague asking if everything was alright. Forcing detachment, I gazed at the buzzy event before me. Men wandering around laughing, looking, learning, but all I could perceive was claustrophobia and testosterone. The sea of working men around me inspired my angle. I kept thinking about how Cornell University, prestigious and hierarc
Mirror, Status Signal, Manoeuvre - Will EVs Forever Pander To The Rich?
Source: Geograph Britain and Ireland Once the road was ruled by 4x4s and combine harvesters. Nowadays it’s ruled by the rich. Or, at least, that may be the way we see it. Electric cars are proven to produce lower emissions, cheaper refuelling costs and a smoother driving experience, but aside from techno-pessimism and the off-putting links between the tech and one of its founding fathers, Elon Musk, the biggest barrier when it comes to purchasing one of these vehicles is, und
Algospeak: You Can’t Unalive Meaning
Unalive. Seggs. Leg booty. Terms like these pop up all over social media. To the uninitiated, they may seem fairly strange. Which, as it often goes with new slang, is kind of the point. These words are part of the phenomenon known as algospeak, a strategy used to circumvent social media content moderation algorithms relying on keywords. According to Merriam-Webster, the term algospeak is a blend of the algo- from algorithm and -speak, a suffix indicating a type of jargon. The
Why Is the Government Teaching Asylum Seekers About Consent?
In August 2026, the Home Office published new guidance for asylum seekers explaining UK law and expectations around gender equality, domestic abuse and consent. UK Home Office, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Some of it is strikingly explicit. Women do not need permission from a husband, father, brother or any other man to work, study, travel, marry or make decisions about their lives. Consent is required every time someone has s
Are We Being Sold Hope?
When Keir Starmer stood outside Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister in July 2024, he talked about hope. Andy Burnham, then Mayor of Greater Manchester, at St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh on 13 August 2024. Image: Scottish Government via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped from the original. He said it had been ‘draining away’ from Britain. Public service was a ‘pre-condition for hope’. Homes, schools and security were its ‘ingredients’. His government would w
Why Can’t Prevent Stop Rebels Without A Cause?
Children’s Commissioner Rachel De Souza’s initiative to help Prevent improve its response to young, violence-obsessed individuals shines a light on an ultimate vulnerability. The threat of radicalisation in young people has been a major blight in Britain for decades, as children gain internet access at a younger and younger age with less and less safeguarding. Prevent, formed to intervene in the radicalisation of young people and help those who already are radicalised, is in
When Did ADHD Become a Personality Trait? The Blurred Line Between Neurodivergence and Disability
"https://www.magnific.com/free-photo Image by wayhomestudio on Magnific I have romanticised ADHD. I've talked about ‘superpowers’. Creativity. Hyperfocus. The ability to think differently. This isn't because I know nothing about neurodivergence. I spent 13 years working with children, many with ADHD or autism. I know that what looks like distraction, refusal or disorganisation from the outside can conceal an exhausting amount of work underneath. And still, I'm one of the roma
Five Years Since The Taliban Takeover and the Plight of Afghan Women Today
A young Afghan girl goes to school in Kabul in November 2021. Photo by Wanman uthmaniyyah, licensed under Upsplash It has been five years since the lives of the Afghan people irrevocably changed. Today, a half-decade of Taliban rule and the desecration of all things equality, human rights, and hope. What had been fought against for twenty years had returned to power, victimising in full force the women and the children and the men who needed a lifeline. The Taliban, an unreco
Cofnas Confronted: Professor Jason Arday and the Journalist Who Broke the Story
Nathan Cofnas has finally been asked the question that has followed him since Professor Arday’s death: does he believe he bears any responsibility for what happened? In his first interview since the former Cambridge professor died, Cofnas was confronted by Al Jazeera over the plagiarism allegations he brought into the public arena and the events that followed. He acknowledged that his intervention set off a chain of events which led to what he described as a tragic outcome, w
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