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Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders

Who were the real Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders / 08 Oct

"What has emerged is that the desires fomented by the Counterculture have created new opportunities for exploitation and control that we are only now coming to realise"

The Great Hack: from the Counterculture to Cambridge Analytica

Social Media / 27 Aug

"The originality of Black Spot lies in its extensive use of imagery from the popular repository of Celtic mythology, cleverly reworked for the 21st century"

How Celtic history is ripe for use in modern TV and film

Folklore / 07 Aug

Stellan Skarsgård and Jared Harris in HBO's Chernobyl

How HBO's Chernobyl addresses 21st century concerns

Philosophy / 06 Aug

Drag queen Alyssa Edwards performs at WorldPride in New York City, June 2019

Teenage girls, drag queens and empowerment

Brainstorm / 18 Jul

"Derry Girls can be characterised less as quality TV and more as good television"

Derry Girls and the value of good television

Derry Girls / 13 May

"You should never call a psychopath a psychopath. It upsets them." Jodie Comer as Villanelle in Killing Eve

5 things you didn't know about psychopaths like Villanelle

Killing Eve / 11 Oct 18

Of course, there are some who would prefer a game of Snap

Our fascination with evil

Evil / 24 Nov 17

"When we see somebody in pain, an alarm goes off in our brain. Psychopaths don't have that alarm, their brain just doesn't respond the same way to other people's distress and pain"

In search of evil

Brainstorm / 17 Nov 17

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