Tag: Commentary
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Looking For Stability In A Broken Job Market
in ColumnAfter hours spent battling through convoluted applications and a growing pile of rejections, I’m left wondering how someone willing and able to work can still end up feeling unemployable. Between bipolar disorder, therapy, and an increasingly dehumanising recruitment process, finding stability feels harder than ever.
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Not Every Emergency Needs an Audience
in ColumnAfter emergency vehicles attended a possible missing person search in the Docklands, I found myself watching another kind of spectacle unfold: the crowd. Why are people so instinctively drawn towards sirens, flashing blue lights, and unfolding emergencies, and at what point does curiosity become performance?
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The World Cannot End Every Morning Before Breakfast
in ColumnModern news increasingly feels designed to emotionally overwhelm rather than inform. After waking up to coverage of the Trump and Xi summit, Colin Cushion reflects on doomscrolling, media framing and why audiences are desperate for perspective again.
Colin Cushion 