[카테고리:] Culture
Why the Pandemic Will Benefit Working Women
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; Unsplash It is often quipped that nothing can be certain but death and taxes. For women, there was always a third unspoken certainty: the eventual choice between a career and a family. Since the Second World…
Chaucer Wasnt Just English, He Was European
In 2013, a Prospect magazine profile of the UKIP leader Nigel Farage described the Brexiteer’s party in Chaucerian terms: UKIP is indeed a rag-tag bag … of cussed, contrary, wilful, protesting, obstreperous, bantering Englishmen and women, the like of which have…
How Online Misinformation Spreads
Bill Gates and the Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic conspiracy text; New Politic You may have heard the outlandish claim: Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to implant microchips in everyone so he can track where they go. It’s…
You Might Own Britains Rarest 50p Coins
Do you think you might hold Britain’s rarest 50p coin? According to the Royal Mint, the government-owned mint responsible for producing coins in the United Kingdom, there are 10 particularly rare 50p coins, which were revealed ahead of the UK’s…
Charisma is a Dangerous and Mysterious Gift
Max Weber. Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; New Politic Charisma is easier to recognise than to define. Newspaper and magazine articles consistently identify charismatic leaders — such as John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Barack Obama — but those same…