It’s Christmas. That means digging out those traditions and rituals that for most of the year live in a bin bag in your attic. Rituals like fighting your way across the country to be with parents, or deliberately isolating ourselves to avoid the usual meltdown that happens around the
Anxiety is everywhere. According to pretty much every statistic measuring anxiety, 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 experience an anxiety disorder - more than
Continuing on the themes I’ve been exploring over the last two weeks. If you’ve missed them you can find part 1 and part 2 here. What’s the theme? Oh, how we find meaning and make sense of this dysfunctional world of ours. Now traditionally, when the world
These are tough times. Come to think of it, I said the same thing three years ago during the depths of Covid, when I first started writing about mental health. And look at us now! We fell out of the pandemic frying pan and into the existential fire of war
The world isn’t great at the moment. Throw a digital dart at any news site, or your own social media page, and you’ll land on things talking about at least one of the following: * The Israel-Palestine conflict * The war in Ukraine * Global warming * The aboslute awful state of
Ah, the internet. The digital equivalent of your local tip or dump. The place where your thoughts and feelings go to die. That may sound harsh, but sadly it’s true. On social media alone, every minute of every day, we share: * 527,760 snaps on Snapchat * 456,000 Tweets
Scenario: you walk into a crowded room. You’re late. Which means everyone hates you. Or does it? It’s an idea that has plagued people since the invention of the crowd. The thoughts and feelings of people we don’t know play a huge role in defining how we’
Well, Matt, I look at something and ask myself, “I would like that, and then I have it.” While that all sounds incredibly simple on the one hand, and unnecessarily philosophical for a grim Friday morning on the other, it’s a question that has popped up a lot for
You are all a bunch of liars. And so am I. Yep, I’ve been looking at some datasets this week - because I’ve got nothing better to do with my time - about how often we lie. And it turns out, we do it all the bloody time.
Anxious about climate change? Of course you are. We all are (I hope). Last month, the University of Bath published the results of its 2023 Climate Action Surveyand the results were bleak. Out of nearly 5,000 respondents, 19% of students and 25% of staff said they were “extremely worried”
There’s something weird going on in the demographic world. That’s not a sentence you thought you’d hear today! But there is, and I’m going to tell you about it. Figures around the average life expectancy of men and women in America have skewed. Women are living
Happy Monday everyone! Another week, another round of content for you to enjoy. Over on the podcast, we have our long read on cultures of silence, and how they permeate into work, families and even governments. It’s all based on the Russell Brand story that has hit the headlines