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The long history of slop in music

Top of the Slops — The term might be everywhere now, but the act of copying and enshittifying has been around for decades, explains Ian McQuaid.

  • Music
  • Ian McQuaid

The anti-tourism guides revealing Lisbon’s true, radical heart

We Hate Tourism Tours — The Portuguese capital sees millions of people visit a year, against a backdrop of political turbulence and a housing crisis fuelled by short term holiday lets. Jack Burke meets the crew subverting their city’s perception, while bringing lesser seen stories and monuments to light.

  • Culture
  • Jack Burke
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In photos: The colourful, foreboding techno-optimism of the ’90s

A Visual History — Henry Carroll’s new book traces the roots of unfettered, present-day neoliberalism through images from the 20th century’s final decade, raising questions about how we arrived at where we are today.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
Railway station platform with large NHS parasites warning poster and Google search advertisement on brick wall. People waiting below.

100 London advertising sites hacked to protest mass consumerism

Tax wealth — Created by anonymous artist network Brandalism, the action comes ahead of Black Friday, when UK shoppers are expected to spend £6.5 billion as brands run discounted sales of their products.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

Sarah Jaffe: “The sense of anger amongst some men is masking a form of grief”

Our latest Hard Feelings column features a raw and powerful interview with the American author exploring grief as a prism through which to understand the world and the people, systems, relationships and communities within it in.

  • Daddy Issues
  • Robert Kazandjian

Why young people are turning to platonic marriages

Abolishing the family — As the role of the nuclear family and romantic relationships in modern society is increasingly called into ​question, people are finding new ways to exist outside heterosexist norms.

  • Activism
  • Katie Tobin

Tech workers are fighting back against employee surveillance

Power in numbers — Invasive workplace surveillance has become a reality for many remote workers over the pandemic. Now, tech workers are unionising to lead the resistance.

  • Activism
  • Sian Bradley

The teen ‘finfluencers’ trying to keep hustle culture alive

Crypto kids — On ‘FinTok’, teenagers who’ve hit the crypto jackpot say they want to help their peers do the same – but are they simply perpetuating a broken capitalist system?

  • Activism
  • Chloé Meley

It’s time to make bosses pay for the commute

Taken for a ride — As workforces are summoned back into the office, a new campaign is calling for half of all fares to be covered by employers. We ought to see commuting as unpaid labour, argues writer Ella Glover.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glover

How to escape the tyranny of work under capitalism

Lost in Work — In her new book, writer and researcher Amelia Horgan explores the many problems facing today’s underpaid, exhausted and disillusioned workforce and why fixing them will mean radically changing the very foundations of society.

  • Activism
  • Daisy Schofield

The ‘Robin Hood‘ bank robber who stole to save society

The unusual suspect — Author Ben Machell discusses his new non-fiction book tracing the extraordinary case of Stephen Jackley, a university student who raided banks and betting offices between 2007 and 2008 with the intention of giving to the poor.

  • Culture
  • Daisy Schofield

Why we started a club night for our teacher, Mark Fisher

For k-punk — Ahead of an event hosted at the ICA in his memory, three of the late Mark Fisher's students remember their lecturer and describe the ways they have endeavoured to keep his fierce spirit and energy of his music writing alive.

  • Capitalism
  • Natasha Eves, Archie Smith and Kitty McKay

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