The world mourns selectively. One victim is a name, a face, a life, whilst another is a number, a statistic, a political talking point. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, yet the world continues to weigh some deaths more heavily than others. In this article, I will examine the colonial origins of necropolitics, the hierarchy of suffering, and the impact of global governance on systematising inequality.

Conspiracy theories are a hot topic at the moment with cases such as Paloma Shemirani circulating the media once again this October. This is not a new occurrence. They have been prominent in cultures for centuries, such as Flat Earthers appearing in the late 1800s, and even dating back to Ancient Rome with rumours about the death of emperor Nero in 68 AD. Stereotypes around conspiracy theorists tend to label these individuals as uneducated or mentally unwell. However, lesser known psychological factors also tend to play a crucial role.

What do John Coltrane, G.F. Handel, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky have in common? Apart from the obvious topic of music, they all integrated improvisatory techniques into their works. You may not think it, but improvising musically has been in use since the 10th century.

BREAKING NEWS: The discovery of a new organelle named the ‘hemifusome’ has broken headlines which makes one wonder whether in the next few decades, this will be on the GCSE specification. You never know…

Things that you can search on Google, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, whatever, only make up about 5% of the internet. ‘What’s the other 95%?’ you may ask. Well, that’s a tough question to answer, because some of it you can’t access with a normal search engine on your phone or computer.  To understand why this is the case, we need to know a little bit more about the internet.