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Van Badham

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51 days ago

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid adv…

3 months ago

Middle-aged men are among society’s loneliest people – what does that say about the patriarchy? | Van Badham

The internet, toxic male influencers and ruthless marketeers – not biology – have helped create a cohort of men with few friends

I’m unsure how this particular column got the job of public advocacy fo…

4 months ago

Are young women finally being spared the unique cruelty of male literary opinions? | Van Badham

Oh, boys; with the passage of time, have you forsaken your Goldberry … or have you forgotten her entirely?

Gen X, millennial and gen Z men are reading less than boomers and older generations in Austra…

6 months ago

Our obsession with spoiling pets has gone too far: your dog doesn’t care if its collar is from Burberry | Van Badham

From luxury pet-friendly accommodation to chartering a private plane for your pooch, the indulgences of late-stage capitalism are extreme

A delightfully fluffy expenses controversy emerged in Queensl…

7 months ago

The ‘womanosphere’ is the latest cultural propaganda assault on young womanhood. Will it work? | Van Badham

A conservative movement seeking to harness female fandoms and pop culture gossip is the new front in the hard right’s endless culture war

Fun news from the Guardian’s “Everything is Awful” desk this w…

America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced | Van Badham

Not only are TV-watching, book-reading, show-going, music-listening travellers declining to visit the US, we have started to cease to imagine it

This week, fresh data revealed the United States has se…

8 months ago

Gen X men: if you don’t find the strength to inoculate boys against the manosphere, what men are left? | Van Badham

The popularity of Adolescence has provided an icebreaker for these conversations, but having them is not a responsibility women can shoulder

“The fitness coach starts his very early morning routine by…

10 months ago

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