Since the 1880s, tattoo parlours have been operating in the capital. Notable patrons of the art form included members of the royal family…

There are many treasures – both academic and artistic – kept well out of reach of the public, often for opaque reasons…

 Sometimes the life of a scribbler does pay off – it brought me to the Alphonse Island, and that was consciousness-expanding.

To what extent do we feel connected to our roots, our past, our lineage? As humans we crave context…

Up and down on public escalators my eyes flicker over endlessly supine forms, repeated with the shoving insistence of propaganda…

Life seldom adheres to order, especially in the theatre…

Like a well-oiled machine, your parents held the door open and fed you to the belly of the city. In return, you got breakfast and a little bit braver…

Fast thinking Gets Things Done. But it is also the mental equivalent of jumping from cloud to cloud, going through never-ending levels of a video game that can only lead to the grave…

We see a multitude of cavalcading colour everywhere, and nobody knows how to use it better than marketing gurus...

Humans are untrustworthy, we’re told. Biased. Liars. Mistake-makers. But the answer is not better education. It’s ‘outsource to technology’…

The popular perception of a psychopath might still be the knife-wielding maniac, but Hare has challenged this view with his study of corporate psychopathy…

London is the most surveilled city in the world after Beijing, and proportionally to population size, the UK has as many surveillance cameras as China…

Santa, in some form, does exist. Not quite the pot-bellied character of current; but actually a shamanic member of indigenous European people...

While London gentrifies and bleaches the diasporic palate of the area, the East London drill scene is at the very least, transcribing our history...

Coming from Ancient China to the West through the Silk Road, paper revolutionised how we communicate...

Who are these women you speak of, who can walk 5 miles in 6 inch heels and hold 7 different things in one hand, yet couldn’t undo a jar of pickles if their lives depended on it?

Music is being exploited, used as a decoy to manipulate us. What becomes your ‘favourite’ song will be guided by tech giants if you let them...

I knew it could only be one thing: the result of a fierce oven pizza habit. I had developed it over lockdown, and it had to stop...

Humans are fallible, sometimes they cheat. And though they do a fair amount of cheating the mundane – taxes, say, or maths tests – they also cheat their partners…

We have always been fascinated by bodies that defy categorisation and the terrifying, unknown possibilities that these humanlike inhuman creatures present...