In the UK, the figure King Charles III cannot commit a legal wrong. Armed with Sovereign immunity, he cannot face trial or be engaged in any kind of court processing, including being sued, and it is currently unclear whether he can give evidence as a witness. Nevertheless, British law has been able to control aspects of the monarch’s life from their marriages to their religion, for hundreds of years.
With the coronation fast approaching, I decided that it was only right that we get to know Charles III, so here is a crash course guide on 10 things you should know about our new monarch.
The number and severity of wildfires across Europe has risen dramatically over the past few decades. Shockingly, we’ve even experienced some wildfires in the UK over the past few summers, during record breaking heatwaves. The fires have also hit Spain particularly severely with an average of 13,000 wildfires a year. Humans are mostly to blame for this sharp increase; unbelievably humans intentionally cause fifty percent of fires.
It’s not an uncommon experience in supermarkets these days to be browsing the shelves for everyday products, only to be surrounded by terms such as micellar technology; pH adjusted; clinically proven, supports immunity! These terms would be at home in a science lab, but instead they describe shampoos, foundations, yoghurts, and more. They seem to be approaching ever closer to ubiquity in the advertising world, and not without good reason.
This year, for International Women’s Day, the fast fashion giant Pretty Little Thing released an entire ‘shop-by’ category in celebration. There seems to be nothing particularly feminist about the clothes, other than a few girlboss-slogan-type tote bags. PLT are manipulating and commodifying a global day of recognition and activism for women into a marketing ploy to maximise profit. But the deepest irony of this entire campaign is that fast fashion companies are actually responsible for supporting and entrenching patriarchy in their own production lines.
