In recent months you’ve probably seen the word “mid” on TikTok a lot. It seems to be popping up all the time in videos, captions and comments. And once you start using it in your own conversations, you may find yourself unable to stop. That’s because “mid” feels like the […]
Editor’s note: This article contains minor spoilers for the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up. Since debuting on Netflix on 24th December, Don’t Look Up has become one of the most talked-about titles of this weird limbo period between Christmas and New Year (which is a great time for TV, tbh). […]
Over the past few years, we’ve pretty much all become fastidious about being clean. From never leaving the house without a bottle of hand sanitiser to disinfecting our mobile phones after a night out, even those who previously weren’t that bothered about bacteria are on board. Are your hands really […]
“Does anyone out there look like me?” It’s a question shouted multiple times a day into the void of the 120,000+ member Facebook group ‘Find My Doppelgänger/Twin Stranger’. Everyone in this group, populated by a global community, is in search of their lookalike. From celebrities to regular folk like you […]
When it comes to sharing viewing figures for its original content, Netflix is gradually getting more transparent. In November it even launched a new website that reveals its top ten titles each week. At the moment, though, Netflix only releases specific viewing figures on a sporadic basis. This tends to […]
Welcome to Love Like This?, a romance column where we, Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Ineye Komonibo, revisit some of the most romantic — or not, in hindsight — scenes in Black film and TV history. For five seasons, we’ve watched Issa Dee (Issa Rae), our homegirl in our head who has […]
If 2021’s trend cycle has proved anything, it’s that, in fashion, everything always eventually comes back in style. From the industry’s penchant for high-waisted jeans and biker shorts made popular in the ‘90s to the resurgence of wallpaper floral prints a lá the 1970s, nostalgia is currently all the rage. […]
The thing about predicting the future is, the moment you speak one into being it becomes a notion that is already past. What transpires after prediction, after ambition, is anybody’s guess — subject to the holy chaos that is the human world. All we can do is honour what we know, […]
Senior healthcare jobs are commanding some of the highest salaries in the UK, according to new figures released by job site Indeed. In fact, no fewer than 12 of the UK’s 20 highest-paying jobs are in the healthcare sector, according to Indeed’s end-of-year figures. With an average salary of £100,000, […]
Christmas Day was Bridgerton‘s first birthday. Shonda Rhimes’ game-changing show premiered on 25th December 2020, rewriting the rulebook of the somewhat stuffy (and overwhelmingly white) period drama genre and making us seriously obsessed with Regency London. It even served as inspiration for Regency-inspired baby names. Sadly, Netflix didn’t treat us […]
