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4 days ago |
unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby
ExtremismISISTerrorSocietystrategic bombersTerrorismUK Eight years ago today, a white van mounted the pavement in London Bridge. It first struck three people before launching Xavier Thomas into the Thames. Next Chrissy Archibald was trapped under the van, briefly freed then run over. Nearby, tourists mooched about Borough Market admiring glossy chocolate strawberries and Sussex cheeses, craning their necks to look at the Shard.
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1 week ago |
unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby
EugenicsGeneticsScienceSilicon ValleyUS In the “not-so-distant future” of the 1997 sci-fi thriller Gattaca, society is divided by genetic status. The protagonist, played by Ethan Hawke, is a naturally conceived “invalid”, while Jude Law plays a former swimming champion whose life was engineered for perfection. Law’s traits had been selected by a geneticist, his fate inscribed in his cells.
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3 weeks ago |
unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby
Dietingfood cultureliver kingMasculinityRFK Jr.SocietyUS In America, there are two famous vampires named Brian Johnson. Well, sort of. The first, who admittedly spells it “Bryan”, is the preternaturally ageless tech entrepreneur who charts his erections and uses infusions of his teenage son’s blood plasma in pursuit of eternal youth — and has ended up looking somewhere freakishly in between 38 and 80.
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1 month ago |
unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby
fantasyFeminismOnlyFanspornSocial mediaSocietyUKVinted Hell is empty, and all the devils are on Depop. Long have second-hand clothes-selling apps and websites played host to the worst human impulses, stuffed to the gills with scammers, cheapskates and cheeky upsellers shifting Primark tank tops for £20. It is the land of huns: the lingua franca is median-average babery, punctuated by kisses, heart emojis and weapons-grade passive aggression.
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1 month ago |
unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby
Jeffrey EpsteinPrince AndrewSexual abuseSocietyUS By now, we all know the story. A sex ring in Florida, circling the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. An alleged encounter with a prince at Tramp nightclub in London, at the age of 17 — an allegation Andrew has always vehemently denied. A coterie of elites named in Epstein’s “little black book”, many of whom have so far remained unnamed.
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