The drive behind workism is to make your work something you are proud of, something that you actively enjoy because it’s going to dominate your life. But the reality is that this isn’t achievable for the vast majority of people.
The comedy sketch, the Four Yorkshiremen, is worth a watch. Not just because it’s very funny, despite dating back to 1948, it reflects a tendency in British culture that is very much alive and kicking today. My entire life, most of which has been spent in the UK, I have witnessed people trying to downplay… Continue reading Levelling Each Other Down
Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the much-anticipated Rwanda litigation in AAA and ors v SSHD [2023] UKSC 42. The Court unanimously dismissed the government’s appeal, upholding the Court of Appeal’s conclusion that the government’s Rwanda policy is unlawful.
Westminster loves to moan about the social media platform formerly known as Twitter even as it becomes ever less useful to politicians and journalists alike. What would it take to finally kill off X and what would replace it?
Public life is demanding, and public expectations of MPs are at an all-time high. Work takes place across most weekends and during unsociable hours. It can take an MP far away from their support networks at home, and it follows them home too. The frequency of online abuse towards MPs is high, and it often speaks louder than praise. All these facets of the job mean that living with a mental health condition and meeting your responsibilities as an MP is incredibly difficult.
Caffettino and Captain Corelli’s are two Italian-owned cafes on Battersea Park Road. Both serve an excellent cappuccino. They lie merely a few doors down from each other and together form a strange timeline of Italian migration to Britain. I was first introduced to Corelli’s’ by my Australian-Italian friend Lydia Di Stefano, who lived just across… Continue reading A tale of two Italian cafes
Illustration by Tracy Worrall for Politics Home In a country where clouds have a habit of blocking out the sun most days, our music scene is one of our brightest lights. Yet as Charlotte Tosti reports, this is under threat from the gradual decline of nightclubs. Between 2011 and 2021, the United Kingdom lost more… Continue reading Last Dance? How our music scene is under threat from the gradual decline of nightclubs
This article was originally published as 'Westminster, l’attentato di cinque anni fa ci ricorda che il linguaggio della violenza ha potere' in Italian for Il Fatto Quotidiano on the 23rd of March 2022 Five years have passed since the Westminster Bridge attack on 22 March 2017, where six people were killed and around fifty people… Continue reading Five years since the Westminster Bridge Attack
Instagram, for me, is a slide into a great big lake of shit. And it is shit that is sticky and hard to swim through, back up the slide into a less connected, more verdant world.
Originally published in Italian as 'Boris Johnson e il boomerang del cattivo esempio' for Huffpost Italia on the 24th December 2021. During these Christmas holidays, there will be little of the usual Christmas spirit in the Boris Johnson household. The main reason is that last year, when anti-Covid rules separated families and prevented citizens from… Continue reading From the Nasty Party to the Naughty Party: why Boris Johnson’s leadership was always a gamble
Originally published in Italian as 'Brexit, cinque anni fa ‘Riprendiamoci il controllo’ era solo uno slogan. Ora è una dottrina' for Il Fatto Quotidiano 23 June 2021 Today marks the fifth anniversary of the life-changing referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. Before the referendum, the EU was a marginal, if not secondary, issue… Continue reading Brexit: Five years ago ‘Take back control’ was a slogan, now it is a doctrine.
Charlotte Tosti 