Exclusive – Exploring the future of events with Eventbrite’s founder and CEO
We spoke with Julia Hartz, Founder and CEO of Eventbrite, about the evolving events landscape, how the mental health crisis and pandemic have changed the types of events we seek out, and what impact AI could have on the future of the industry. To say the events industry has had...
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The UK nightclub scene is dying off rapidly
New figures from the Night Time Industries Association show that more than one in four late-night venues have closed down since 2020 in the UK. What are the factors at play? We have all inevitably had that banal chat with our elders about what a particular club venue was once...
Experts call for boys and girls to learn about periods together
Education reform in schools could drastically decrease stigma around menstruation, according to research. Now excuse me for being brash, but when I read that experts were calling for boys and girls to receive period education together I thought ‘umm, duh?’ This ostensibly revolutionary insight feels, to me, like common sense. And...
The Gen Z innovator changing lives across Africa, Elly Savatia
Across Africa, thousands of deaf individuals remain at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing education, healthcare, and work - simply because no tool exists to enable them to communicate. But a young Kenyan entrepreneur is demonstrating that locally-made technology can change that paradigm. Globally, according to the Burgeon...
‘Buy Now Pay Later’ services want women in ‘cute debt’
The distinctly gendered marketing of these financial services is pushing women into a phenomenon known as ‘cute debt’. I hate to be the popcorn feminist who assumes anything pink must be targeting women – but let’s face it, marketing is often a simple as it seems. In fact, that’s kind of...
European leaders’ united front joins Zelenskyy at the White House
The meeting saw Trump being more civilised to the Ukrainian leader after European officials joined to discuss the current war, following a similar meeting with Putin. Nobody has been more obsessed with a Nobel Peace Prize than President Donald Trump has. The White House claimed that he had brokered...
UK students being forced to work 20 hour weeks to make ends meet
A new report shows first-years need £260 a week (excluding rent) for a ‘socially acceptable’ standard of living – forcing many to take on jobs that leave little room for the studies they came for. The news that UK students are being forced to work 20 hours a week just to meet a basic standard of living will come as no surprise to anyone who has been a student, particularly...
Africa’s youth is fighting injustice with memes
If you're African and online, chances are your first taste of politics came not from a news broadcast, but from a meme. A screenshot. A freeze-frame. A line of text in Impact font. Maybe it made you laugh, then made you think. Maybe it made you mad enough to post, to protest, to speak. Across the continent, memes have emerged as one of Gen Z’s sharpest weapons against injustice, a...
France’s new bill to speed up the restitution of looted African artefacts
The post-Napoleonic era saw a surge in colonial loot as France scrambled to conquer Africa. Now, the nation’s new bill hopes to speed up the process of returning these objects to their places of origin. Centuries after the colonial era’s looting practices, the legacies of the stolen artefacts continue to affect former colonies. Many of these loots remain within the confines of Western museums and private collections, far from their...
Israeli settler attacks on West Bank rise amid new illegal settlement plans
Since the start of this year, Israeli settlers have committed a record number of attacks on people and homes in the West Bank. These land grabs, which often violence and arson, continue as Israel’s far-right minister says he will approve more than 3,000 new illegal settlements in the area. Israeli extremists are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages in the West Bank since 2006,...
