The New Era of Pop and RnB is here – and it’s British
Defining an artist is easy. ‘A person talented in the art of music,’ the Oxford English Dictionary tells me. Yet there is an irony in that definition. The tacit implication of an immutable confinement to convention, telling you exactly what you are and how to be it—a strain on musical culture
On the ‘para’ (পাড়া)
My childhood summers unfolded between the homes of my maternal and paternal grandparents in West Bengal, India. Each sojourn began in Kolkata, with legs sticking to the hot leather of an un-airconditioned taxi as we hurtled past blue-and-white flyovers crowded with towering billboards—‘Didi,’
Drawing in Crayon
How embarrassed would you be on a scale of one to ten if your mother sealed drawings you made in primary school into envelopes for posterity and they were then put on display? I think I’m at a solid 8/10. But if someone in the Guardian said they were ‘really accomplished’? Maybe a 6. [&he
A review of DEPOT ‘25
‘Fusion Arts connects artists with communities promoting dynamic creative projects that drive social justice and celebrate diversity. Fusion Arts is a catalyst for creativity in Oxford and beyond.’ – The Fusion Arts brochure I’m no stranger to the pretensions of the Art World. My
Smoking. Hot?
The slim tube of paper rests elegantly between my fingers—I can almost inhale a swirl of smoke emerging from it. ‘Are you going to eat that lollipop?’ my mother asks. I gingerly turn the sweet the right way round and suck on sugar instead of fictional nicotine (not that I am awa
Putting the fiction back in fiction
Despite the havoc that the ‘spell pharaoh’ video wreaked in 2021, in the internet age, it is impossible not to define yourself by the media you consume. Eventually everybody will find themselves on #BookTok, or [insert cursive font here] film Twitter, or one of the millions of K-Pop Faceb
Bush!—The Dreampolitik of Comic Purity
Bush! The Musical by The Mollys Productions had the last show of its run at the Moser Theatre, Wadham College on Saturday 31 May, 2025 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Internet in the turbulent year of 2022. In the final days of Weimar […]
‘Bops’, the new right, and woman-hating
I have deleted the Instagram App from my phone. In clearing my life of useless information (like photos of beloved family and friends, and the activities of my peers), I have found the space to devote my attention to what really matters; the Snapchat Explore page. Snapchat’s
GUILLOTINE: Stop killing fictional Nazis
Nazi soldiers get a hard time in the movies. They’re Hollywood’s cartoon villains; from Indiana Jones to Inglorious Basterds, we love to watch those frankfurter eating fascists get blown to bits, battered with baseball bats, or, naturally, have their faces melted off. They’ve been writt
