Colin Cushion

Tag: Commentary

  • Not Every Emergency Needs an Audience

    Not Every Emergency Needs an Audience

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    After 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?

  • The World Cannot End Every Morning Before Breakfast

    The World Cannot End Every Morning Before Breakfast

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    Modern 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.