As Good As It Gets
Prison, according to Roger Hallam, co-founder of environmentalist movement Extinction Rebellion (XR), is ‘as good as it gets.’ After serving a six-week jail term in Wormwood Scrubs, Hallam summarised the prison experience in a Facebook post as consisting of ‘sitting on a bed all day reading bi
the chatter of men and women
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∎ Words by Yasmin Linh Nguyen. Art by Jules Desai.
Poetry is useless
i dive into a poem naked to find clothes too loose to fit; a dead grandfather’s batik shirt buttoned down a sun burnt chest […]
Comics
*** Cartooning is like poetry with intention; the art of pointing out the ridiculous by enshrouding the pointing out with seriousness. In this selection of cartoons, I hope to point out the absurd in places overlooked, and inspire others to think about other aspects of their lives that seem serious,
Climate Change and Social Pacts
*** Whilst carrying out fieldwork this summer, I heard locals from the island of Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, speak of the deep social bonds we have with the natural elements – particularly water, the wind and the sea. Just like the rest of the world, some locals are concer
China’s Third Way
Shenzhen, the fourth largest city on the Chinese mainland, and one of the largest cities in the world, is contemporary China at its most bizarre and contradictory. Straddling the border with Hong Kong, and part of the broader geographic and economic region known as the Pearl River Delta, Shenzhen is
Funding Under Fire
Walking out of Oxford train station, the first building you see is a sleek three-storey structure, its polished modernity incongruous with its modest surroundings. The Saïd Business School, built in 2001, oversees teaching for Oxford University students in business, management, and finance. Only th
BAIAE
Noon estranged all living things, Taking black heaven; Sucking in the sea, the (seven) hills. We trek. Irretrievables progressed, are away. We edge off The rim of everything; the sea stasis attends A gull’s catechisms, face wrapped in Evening wedding veils That genuflec