Image sourced from https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/ai-and-popular-culture/?k=9781803823300 Academic Elana Gomel writes that...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq As a Colombian, it never ceases to shock me whenever someone makes a Pablo Escobar or cocaine joke (even...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The past year has seen a new drug sweeping through the medical cabinets of the Hollywood glitterati....

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It was once written that the emergence of liberal democracies all around the world represented the end of...

Content Warning: Racist language It was Tuesday on a sluggish June afternoon in 1956, and Samuel Cohn sat and smoked a cigarette, waiting...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq I recently read an article in The Economist describing an American university professor’s experience with...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq We live in a material world. We live in a world where people, no matter who or where, need houses to live...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Do you call yourself a liberal? If you are reading this, then there is a good chance that you do, but you...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq When Shen Yun came to the Edinburgh Playhouse to perform ‘5,000 Years of Chinese Civilization Reborn’, it...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq I wait in the window of Café Salut, the Old Medical School looming over me from across the street....

The Age of Discord The refugee’s home is my home But it only became my home when the refugee thanked me for it This is the Age of...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq For as long as I’ve been a feminist, I’ve resented the term survivor being used in gender-based violence...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The case of Shamima Begum is not a simple one. Even when presented with all the facts, making an honest...

In the Smoking Area Cristina Rizzo “You ok?” He scares me. His voice is hugged by the cushioned music from inside the club. My ears feel...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Recent reports in the mainstream media have demonstrated a pattern of disrespect towards women who have...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In 2003, Tony Blair was famously prevented from answering an interview question about his religious...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq On the 7th of December 2022, in a national broadcast, the then President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, took a...

To be the moon is what he wanted me to be. round serene A face...

At the bottom of the garden the little girl plays. It is spring and the sun is warm in this spot, Filtered through the gaps in the blue...

Nothing Beautiful There is nothing beautiful to say by it, About it, there is nothing gold. The source of my heart, and yet The black...