The New World • 25th February 2026

The dream is no longer to be boss – it’s to be the intern

Recent Office for National Statistics figures show that while the core rate of unemployment is 5.2%, for 16- to 24-year-olds it’s 16.1% – which comes as no surprise to any of us.I once watched Fight Club with a friend who was bewildered by the idea that, in the 1990s, the idea of having a job where you worked in a cubicle was something terrible. This is how bleak the current jobs market is for graduates. We’ve all seen the countless testimonials about how nowadays you’re lucky even to get a reje...

Financial Times • 23rd February 2026

Is your face on trend?

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The New World • 20th February 2026

Stop blaming women for Britain’s falling birth rate

Recently unearthed footage from November 2024 shows Goodwin mansplaining about where women are going wrong. “Many women in Britain are having children much too late in life,” he said, adding, “we need to also explain to young girls and women the biological reality of this crisis.”In a turn of events that has surprised absolutely no one, the Reform candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has managed to offend people.This patronising guff has sparked a considerable backlash. Natalie Fleet,...

BBC • 3rd November 2025

BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, Women’s safety and public transport

Appeared as a guest to debate on the side of introducing female-only carriages on the London Underground

Financial Times • 2nd October 2025

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist — from terrorism to Tennyson

The lives and minds of writers are at the forefront of this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist, which also offers accounts of the rise of modern terrorism, the story of slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the pilgrimage of a lone wolf across the faultlines of Europe.

The Times • 1st October 2025

Do any young women ever feel safe on the Tube? I know I don’t

Groped, verbally harassed, called a ‘stuck-up bitch’ — it shouldn’t be like this

The New World • 26th August 2025

The great university rip-off

Another read: “Starting to think the troops who left school early and went straight into the trades r [sic] the real winners. A skill set and a job for life that they didn’t put themselves into debt for” read another. Scroll through TikTok and it doesn’t take long to find graduates venting their frustration. “I have applied to 65 jobs since graduating and only had 2 interviews! I have a first-class honours degree, have completed 3 internships, and have been working since I was 14. WHAT. AM. I. D...

The New World • 20th June 2025

Gen-Z want to 'rot' at home. What's wrong with that?

That’s the sum total of the lives of Chinese “rat people”: self-christened Gen Z societal dropouts, who on social media platforms like Weibo and Rednote try to ironically one‑up each other with their feats of inertia. Imagine something along the lines of “You doom scroll from the couch? Tryhard, I haven’t left my bed in days”.Wake up at midday, doom scroll on the sofa all afternoon, eat a vaguely warm takeaway, then go back to bed. The term went viral after a video from a 20-something woman from...