Thred Talk – Meat alternatives | Lasagna taste test
Elliot and Imogen accomplish their life-long dream of cooking lasagna in the office. The excuse they used to get it past the pitching process is making a video to raise some awareness about the meat production industry and agricultural crisis the planet is currently facing. The rest of the...
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Thred Talk – The DIY Generation | SoundCloud rap
What does it mean to be a pop star in 2020? As social media continues to change how we consume and discover new music, up-and-coming Gen Z artists are finding their voice without record labels, taking to platforms such as SoundCloud to distribute work independently. Elliot and Charlie sit...
Thred Talk – The Monarchy
Meghan and Harry are out, and the perennial debate about whether the UK should oust the monarchy is back in. Imogen and Elliot hash out London’s reaction to #Megxit, and whether there’s still a place for the millennia old tradition of royalty in modern day Western states. Do they...
Thred Talk – Periods
One in ten UK women struggle to afford feminine hygiene products and one in five teenage girls have skipped school because of their periods. Imogen, Jamie, and Sofia discuss period poverty around the world, and the Gen Z activists that have started a long overdue conversation around this monumental...
Thred Talk – Mental Health
To honour World Mental Health Day this week, the Thred office sat down and discussed their own experiences with mental health, and what the term means for young people now. Understanding and improving one’s mental health has been a defining issue for Gen Z and it’s so important we...
Thred Talk – The politics of poppies | Remembrance Day
Every year people around the world don a red poppy in remembrance of the world-shattering events of WWI and WWII. But, in recent years, a debate regarding whether the symbol of the poppy has been co-opted by the media and by overt political bias has put its status into...
