Colin Cushion

Tag: Society

  • Looking For Stability In A Broken Job Market

    Looking For Stability In A Broken Job Market

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    After 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.

  • 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 Slow Collapse of Public Behaviour

    The Slow Collapse of Public Behaviour

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    Public space is not a stage, a living room, or an extension of your personality. Somewhere along the way, restraint was mistaken for weakness and consideration for inconvenience. This is not nostalgia. It is a refusal to indulge behaviour that makes shared life unbearable.