The year is 1997. After 18 years of unchallenged Conservative dominance, New Labour is taking Britain by storm. Dynamic and modern, New Labour thrust a new kind of politics into the public sphere; one that was cool. Long gone were boring, stale Conservative politics. This excitement for a new kind of Labour party, one that was modern, business friendly and centre-left, was only heightened by the lore and drama surrounding Tony Blair (and Gordon Brown). Subsequently, on the 1st of May 1997, Labour would go on to win a huge 179-seat majority in parliament. Blair, coining the term ‘New Labour’ in 1994, certainly sought to set his party apart from previous Labour governments. But in reality, how revolutionary, how ‘new’, was his New Labour?

Those who have the app TikTok may have, unfortunately, come across the ‘super straight’ movement, a recently established sexual identity which can be defined as ‘a person who will not date a trans person under any circumstances’. However, looking beyond the blatantly transphobic connotations behind this ‘sexual orientation’, research into the origins of ‘super straight’ indicates clear connections to neo-Nazism and how the people supporting this movement have fallen into the trap of promoting Nazi propaganda.

The appalling story of Sarah Everard’s murder has touched us all, both men and women. Sarah was last seen alive leaving her friend’s house on the 3rd of March and is thought to have been abducted whilst walking across Clapham Common on her way home. Seven days later, her remains were found in a builder’s bag forty miles away in Kent. The irony is not lost on me that her alleged killer, Wayne Cozens, is a Metropolitan Police constable.

Content warning: discussion of the societal impact of sexual violence

Assuming you were intrigued by the title and are now wondering whether the toast or the avocado is the culprit of the unrest and many of the kidnappings happening in Mexico, let me tell you that, although bread has controversies of its own (Subway’s bread has too much sugar to qualify as actual bread, for instance), it is, indeed, the avocado that will be prosecuted today.

Earthquakes are accelerating the rate at which our climates are changing.

Firstly, let me establish: climate change and earthquakes are not directly related. The magnitudes and frequency of earthquakes are unaffected by climate change and share no correlation with global warming. However, the hidden impacts of earthquakes, which are perhaps ignored by the media, are causing alarming effects on biodiversity and the way that our planet is maintained.