One of Pew’s character remarked “ everything is just so strange lately” as Catherine Lacey has been spending the night in churches in the small towns of American south. Vagabond sex and washing in a petrol station the narrator notes “where my legs met, there was something I knew to protect, though I could not…
Ed West’s Small Men On the Wrong Side of History gives an insight into why conservatives have lost almost every political argument since 1945. He propagates woke progressivism taking over the West, parasitising the minds of younger generations saying cultural conservatism is dying. The western world has gone through a huge cultural shift, comparable to…
Stuart Maconie tells Britain’s Welfare State story through his own history of growing up a northern working-class boy. What was bad about publicly funded hospitals, decent working conditions, student grants, and affordable houses. Britain’s future, making an emotional case for believing in more than profit and loss and defending a just, fairer society. Music journalist,…
Martyn Rady’s Habsburgs gives us a gripping dramatic epic story of a dynasty and the world it built and then lost on an impressive scale over a millennium. Habsburgs with modest origins, grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century and rapidly expanded to take in a large…
Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in human history and culture. The 18th century paved way for softer, sweeter perfumes, often with floral and fruity scents came into fashion, reflecting new norms of femininity and a gentler vision of nature. In 2014 scientific finding…
Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream – including the problem of blindness, which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. Often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we…
A rocket capable of flying passengers from London to Dubai in under 29 minutes, shared flying cars that can be ordered up like we order a Uber and which nanoscale motes will float through our bloodstream collecting data are some of the innovations that await us in the next decade as the technology is accelerating…
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world – a movie factory, a music factory and dream factory. Ultimate factory girl, a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitx, a pure product of LA, whose Cunningly Semi-autobiographical fictions portray herself as the ditsiest of bed-hopping butterflies in 1960s Los Angeles,…
Navinder Singh Sarao, a mathematical prodigy turned trader , a Cheeky school boy tuned to supposedly master criminal, contrived to have himself hunted down by the FBI for crashing the US Stock market, from a computer in his bedroom in his parental home under a flight path in drab London suburbia in working-class neighbourhood of…
When New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis, owner the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island, passes his card to the beautiful bartender Vincent with a tip, it marks the beginning of their life together. On the same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the widowed wall…