And a national inquiry into the news media’s relationship with power — Chief Constable Andy Hayman had “a boyhood aspiration” of becoming a journalist. In the early 2000s he was in charge of counter-terrorism and protecting Britain’s most powerful elite; the royal family and the prime minister. He studied criminology at Cambridge and rose through the ranks of the police force before…

On a grey Friday in August 2018, a 15-year-old girl sat down in front of the Swedish parliament with a sign. Less than a year later, that same girl was on the front cover of Time magazine: she became the youngest person to be named Time person of the year…

No one expects to be on holiday during the apocalypse. — At first, you don’t really notice the thin layer of haze that isn’t normally there, until the locals point it out. Hazardous air; it makes the typically blue sky look like a dirty windshield. You watch the news, unable to believe what’s happening 1,500 km away. The end of the…

“Thank you!” says the man who smiled back at me from under his thick lumbersexual beard, “People don’t smile in this city anymore. I lived here 10 years ago and I’ve just come back from Texas and it’s completely different — unfriendlier.” His name was Bret, we were on a…

There is a shoebox in a storage unit that’s packed full of condolence cards. …

Hello, my name is Chiara and I masturbate. I’ve been doing it since I was about 7. I still remember the first time it happened. Embarrassment warning: This might be an awkward read for the few colleagues who might read this and maybe my older brother too (who is the…

I used to think that if I imagined something horrible, then it wouldn’t happen. …

The last time I bought something new to wear was in July 2014*: it was a pretty blue dress for my graduation. Since then, pretty much every piece of clothing that has found its way into my closet has been bought second-hand, inherited or borrowed. You might say, “I could…

It’s been nearly three years since I first turned up at Greenpeace International as a bright-eyed young intern, intent on saving the world one tweet at a time. I’ve learned some things since then. — Climate change is complicated. Really complicated. It’s going to affect nearly every aspect of our lives on this planet. There isn’t one easy cure-all solution that will fix everything. But luckily there are a lot of brilliant people working on it.