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Why nightlife matters in Brexit Britain, now more than ever

Save club culture! — Despite an onslaught of club closures, and an uncertain future, people are still throwing their weight behind London nightlife.

  • Culture
  • Saoirse O'Leary

The photographer staring death in the face

Salad days of a fleeting youth — Ever looked at a photograph and thought you've seen it before? Ben Gore’s candid new book Goodbye, Blue Monday, is like flicking through the pages a surreal old family photo album you found in the loft.

  • Culture
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Love, lust and loneliness across a Europe in crisis

Europe, She Loves — Europe might be in the midst of a crisis, but the lives of people across the continent continue. Swiss director Jan Gassmann’s new film, Europe, She Loves, explores the love lives of young Europeans as they navigate the most unforgiving frontiers in Europe.

  • Film
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Hopelessness In Focus: Northern England's 1980s industrial decline

A masterpiece revisited — Photographer Chris Killip's seminal 1988 work In Flagrante captured the north of England in flux. Nearly three decades later Killip has made the bold but much rejoiced decision to revisit and rerelease the project, which feels as pertinent today as ever.

  • Photography
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Ephemeral Space of Time: RVCA’s longboarding muse

Surf, art, garms — French artist and surfer Marqaux Arramon-Tucoo takes us on a journey of her creative inspirations in this ethereal video from RVCA.

  • Art
  • Saoirse O'Leary

More than a pretty face: Talking race and gender with Donnika Anderson

Finding liberation in the world’s harshest industry — Fashion is, as we all know, a pretty shallow industry. But that doesn’t mean it has to be that way. Model Donnika Anderson explains how she found liberation in modelling and how fashion is slowly untangling its deep-rooted issues.

  • Culture
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Website crash excludes young people from registering for EU referendum

Computer says, ‘No’ — Remain vote dealt major blow as tech problems affect hundreds of thousands of young voters who left registration until the last minute.

  • Activism
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Every Player Counts: Celebrating women in football

Game changing pictures — There’s gritty energy in abundance to be found the world of women’s football, but too often it’s overlooked. Footballer and photographer Flora Maclean has had enough of being ignored - her latest solo exhibition, ‘Every Player Counts’, features women’s clubs from across the UK with an all-inclusive ethos.

  • Photography
  • Saoirse O'Leary

Glastonbury 2016 will have its first ever women-only venue

A woman's revolutionary clubhouse — Glastonbury is set to launch its first woman only venue, when the UK’s largest music festival kicks off later this month. The Sisterhood champions itself as a space run by and for women, as reports of assault and harassment continue to rise. But do we need a safe space at such a politically aware festival?

  • Music
  • Saoirse O'Leary

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