12+ hour, 6+ min ago   (159+ words) Perhaps you’ve noticed the unusual tone of the comments underneath popular songs of the last century. A genre has arisen without anyone deciding it: the nostalgic, confessional paragraph recalling some deep sense memory from the author’s past, triggered by the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (604+ words) The Irish Times What’s driving the cultural obsession with the 1990s? Who wouldn’t want to live in a place where you can hang around cafes without computers, afford to rent in lively cities and where no-one is surveilling you?...

5+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (199+ words) Sarah Burns looks at the problems facing the M50 and what, if anything, can be done to alleviate traffic. Mark O'Connell looks at how White House videos are capturing the 'Brain Rot War'. Video: Enda O'Dowd John Menarry is the last…...

5+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (665+ words) Just as the US war in Vietnam was the first war of the television age, its horrors projected nightly into the livingrooms of Americans, the current war in Iran is the first war of the brainrot era: a war mediated…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1784+ words) Have you taken the bait on the jersey, barrel leg pants yet? If you’re a midlife woman with an Instagram account, they’re hard to escape. “These sell-out Uniqlo trousers have Instagram in a chokehold,” screamed a headline in Grazia last…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (660+ words) Next came her 2023 novel The Future, which toyed with what might happen in a not-too-distant tomorrow if today’s increasingly dystopian social media and technology-infused world got even worse, to where corporations, platforms and their ultra-wealthy owners – the controllers of all…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (508+ words) “Skibidi”, “tradwife” and “delulu” are among the new words to have made this year’s Cambridge Dictionary in a selection that confirms the increasing influence of the TikTok generation on the English language. For those hoping that such neologisms would be…...