Matt Hussey

👆👆Oh look, it's The Brink podcast! Listen to this week's newsletter here! 👆👆 It’s Christmas. That means the bin bag of Christmas decorations you hastily shoved somewhere so you didn’t have to think about them is now empty, and your home is littered with tinsel

I read something odd the other day.  Over in China, the Department of Culture and Tourism announced they had created a unique holiday package. Called the "Exile to Ningguta", paying customers would get the chance to experience what it was like to be exiled during the Qing dynasty.

When you think of psychopaths, where does your mind take you? For me,  I’m transported back to my late teens, and watching Patrick Bateman, the eponymous main character from American Psycho: a suave lunatic who can be an expert in the inner workings of Phil Collins, but also an

Oh it’s gloomy out there guys. Regardless of your political views, open your favourite news app and you’re inundated with all the bad things in the world. Whether it’s climate change, poo in the rivers, wars in the Middle East, the refugee crisis, the rise and rise

This week Donald Trump returned to the White House. For the political left it was a gut punch. For the political right it was a vindication of sticking with a man who had been tried, convicted, impeached and bankrupted on multiple occasions.  But for the rest of us who don’

Anxiety is everywhere. According to pretty much every statistic measuring it, there has been a steady increase in people feeling a sense of dread or fear about their lives. And it’s global. It’s believed around 4% of the global population currently experiences an anxiety disorder - more than