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The Room for Best

Geoff Dyer’s Homework shows childhood not as innocence, but as class training—plastic toys, unwritten rules, and a welfare state already fraying at the edges.

Pencil drawing inside prison

No More Cells

They say prisons are overcrowded, as if the cages are too small. As if the problem is spatial. As if all we need is a few more acres of razor wire and reinforced concrete and the crisis will vanish. But prisons aren’t full because we lack space. They’re full because we lack imagination.

Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Fear AI, Fear Capitalism

As we march towards an era of technological innovation, driven by artificial intelligence, it’s easy to be fearful of the machines. But the real threat isn’t the AI itself; it’s the system that created and manipulates it for its own gain. Capitalism, with its insatiable hunger for wealth and power, poses the greatest danger to humanity.