It was a top-secret intelligence report written in 1943. But it could have been written today. It’s fucking inevitable. As a day of reckoning looms on the horizon, the ship will spring a leak or twenty. That’s because rats aren’t renowned for hanging around and going down with all hands-on-deck. They start to look around …
How culture outlives strongmen and rewrites history to win the war over imagination Photo by Dylan Shaw on Unsplash Tinpot dictators fucking hate art. Given where the world seems to be headed, that fact both empowers and terrifies me. Because for people like me, it means there’s work to be done. But it also means …
A historian’s warning: when society tells women to ‘play nice,’ it never ends well, and today, the warning signs are all around us. Oh, 2026. We had such high hopes for you. But the party’s definitely over. A week in, and I’m already done. WTF is happening in Venezuela? Then there’s all the sabre rattling …
Why the No Kings movement needs to keep its head. On 18 October, two percent of America’s voting-age population took to the streets to tell President Donald J. Trump to, respectfully, fuck off. Their message was simple. No Kings. Not now. Not ever. That’s important. But it’s not enough. Resistance on that scale sends a …