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So... everything's "polyester" now?

Gen Z's newest go-to insult, explained so you get it

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I Filmed the Concert, Therefore I Was There

It is festival season in the UK. At Boiler Room, I watched The Dare and Yung Lean and, like a person with a university education, critical faculties and chronically insufficient phone storage, filmed practically every song I recognised. Around me, precisely what people go to Boiler Room for was taking

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ArtTech Isn't Art on Screens. It's Five Startups to Know Before 2026 Is Out.

What's actually happening while everyone argues about whether AI can paint. Review from ArtTech specialist, currently Digital Project Manager at the National Gallery, London.

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What’s Wrong With the ‘Female Gaze’?

How the internet sanitised the public image of female lust

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Going once, going twice: tales from the auctions

Auctions come in all flavours, from the classic open English auctions, where everyone eagerly watches as bids fly higher and higher, to the secretive closed, first-and second-price auctions where you might feel like a spy deciphering top-secret bids. Then there are the Dutch auctions, which defy gravity

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Five British TV shows that are basically a degree in this country

Hot take: you cannot understand a country’s culture without watching its television. You can go to museums, pubs, read newspapers, talk to locals — but until you turn on national TV at prime time, you’re a tourist. British television is my anthropological empire. This is where you learn what

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What ANTM's new documentary actually reveals about media accountability

A new Netflix documentary about the iconic reality show is out — and it holds nothing back. Bullying, Tyra's meltdowns, contestants in tears recounting forced makeovers, questionable photoshoots (a model in a salad. In front of homeless people. Models with their skin painted to "change their nationality"