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Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

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With the arrival of US hedge funders at Wrexham, there is no pretence any more. This is just another project, as it always was ...

Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, in one of her poems, The Gift of India (1917). More than a century later, Shruthi ...

Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, in one of her poems, The Gift of India (1917). More than a century later, Shruthi Rajasekar explains this poem to an audience of thousands, who didn’t live in ...

Every year, when it’s time to make my end-of-the-year list, I realize there are still too many new releases that I’ve yet to ...

The difference is that arthouse is art, and knows it. These are films which proudly aim beyond mere money-making for multinational media conglomerates. They push at the boundaries of the form, explore ...

Photo courtesy of Tyla “Every cloud has a silver lining,” wrote English poet-philosopher and leading 17th century civil ...

Every year, when it’s time to make my end-of-the-year list, I realize there are still too many new releases that I’ve yet to see, which is somewhat ridiculous since I actually managed to catch around ...