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‘He was surrounded by influential figures, working with some of the country’s most renowned theatres. How could they be enabling something like this?’
An utterly extraordinary investigation by . If you read one article today, make it this
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Chris Goode was deeply influential in theatre, and used the language of queer emancipation to make art riddled with exploitation and abuse (and that’s just the start of it.) I spoke to the survivors of Ponyboy Curtis to ask: how do you heal from all this?
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wrote an article about my experience of Monday's explosions in Kyiv
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Listen to me talking realness in this clip from the latest podcast from where and I chop it up about punk & grime, boxing and resisting the conventions of the literary establishment.
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As the British cricket season draws to a close, here’s something celebratory that I wrote for about the beauty of youth cricket and the wonderful young people who are trying to change the game:
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V pleased to have contributed to ’s brilliant cost of living series with a piece about the energy crisis, Tory failures, and political vibe shift (feat Katie Hopkins calling for “collective action”)
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“I’m worried I’ll struggle to lead a “normal” student life” – we spoke to uni goers about their concerns, with great portraits shot by Nora Nord
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Though of course there’s another side of the coin, this piece by featuring a couple of bits from me & among others is a decent rebuttal to the cliche that good pop music is mere spontaneous protest
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Looking back over anti-establishment music history, unpacks the ‘hard times make good music’ idea
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Wrote about how times of economic hardship can be tough on women, particularly at a time when we’re seeing an influx of alpha male influencers
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Properly moved listening to Kay Mellor’s Desert Island Discs. What a gorgeous woman she was. “Every person is important, no matter who they are.” One of the great working class Northern intellects
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Incredibly proud to announce that I've written this – the authorised biography! Having spent over a year maniacally typing away, I can't wait for people to finally read it. It's out on Oct 26 via Faber Music.
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latest bit of footy for , on Ronaldo as a dying god trapped in a purgatory of his own making
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17 recent graduates from across our Fashion programme featured in 's celebration of the future of fashion 💫
#CSM2021
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“The vibe is gone. They don’t wanna come to a studio knowing that their brothers got locked up out here."
Latest is about Young Thug and Young Thug's Atlanta, for the new print issue of :
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This is a great essay by about why it feels like we’re going backwards politically, and how we can fight the pushback
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Glad to work at a mag that still values in-depth, high-quality music journalism. Here, gets deep into the story of Young Thug and YSL. From the new print issue. twitter.com/TheFaceMagazin
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Killing Floor (1997) by Lee Child, Berlin (2022) by Bea Setton, The Arena of the Unwell (2022) by Liam Konemann.
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We’ve started a new column called Hear Me Out where a writer shares a controversial/unpopular opinion – first up on everyone’s favourite show
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There’s a big ol’ storm brewing in the land of British TikTok. But how did we get from a lad kicking a ball in his back garden to this?
For I went long on the spiralling beef, #drinkypoos and Saturday’s fight for the ages.
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father forgive me for i have aided and abetted a PR stunt from this year's most talked-about Two Guys making electronic music. this article will self-destruct in eight hours
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"in some circles DJing is like some big networking machine where it’s more about clout and name dropping than the music"
In their first published interview, Two Shell speak about DJ culture and making music last forever
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Two Shell speak! interviewed the mysterious duo via their shell tech platform (the article will disappear in 12 hours btw)
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“do we have permission to bash the waffle stick?”’s 💣self-destructing💣 two shell interview is a must-read
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The Great Resig-Bey-tion is here, and I spoke to some people who actually resigned after hearing her track
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latest footy entry for on the Nations League, the most vibeless competition in history, an emotional vortex, an unknowable entity.
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interviewed Honor Levy for the latest issue of . Really like her writing, reminds me of the first time I saw Ryan Trecartin’s work, or read Bret Easton Ellis. Online now:
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theface.com/life/metaverse Something I wrote on Web3, old rave videos, the man who paid $450k to live next door to Snoop Dogg in the Metaverse and 'the moment our online lives outrun our physical ones'.
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trying out writing about footy for . First one is about Paul Pogba’s six ambient years at United. He arrived “home” as the first true superstar of the smartphone era, a whirlwind of hashtags and dances, and leaves an unknown:
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At Work With: Matthew Whitehouse, editor ‘I take incredibly seriously that we are guardians of this thing that people have cherished memories of. Very seriously. But we also need to stay in the now as much as possible’ magculture.com/blogs/journal/ #welovemagazines
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I interviewed Julia Fox for The Face.
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If you were an extraterrestrial, what do you think you would look like? "I would be purple. I could see that for myself. And I’d be very tall, with really long legs. Or no legs."
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