Matt Blake

The Borders Issue 2019

How Politicians Fooled the World Into Believing in Nations

National identities make us believe in ideas like democracy, money, and laws. The trouble is they are stories that can all too easily be manipulated for political power. Take Brexit...
Matt Blake
8.26.19
Drugs

How Big US Companies Are Selling Weed Vapes in the UK

We met J.J. O'Brien from vape giant PAX Labs to talk about bringing the PAX 3 to the U.K. and marketing a legal product to an illegal market.
Matt Blake
5.22.19
sex work

Why British Sex Workers Are Striking This Friday

We spoke to sex worker Sage Woodford about what they're hoping to achieve.
Matt Blake
3.6.19
The Power and Privilege Issue

The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job

Experts believe almost a third of the global workforce will be automated by 2030. But are universities preparing students for the rise of the office machines?
Matt Blake
10.15.18
university guide 2018

The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job

Experts believe that almost a third of the global workforce will be automated by 2030. But are universities preparing students for the rise of the office machines?
Matt Blake
9.13.18
ISIS

We Shared a Prison Cell with an Isis Fighter

The story of Robert Daw and Rae Lewis-Ayling, who travelled to Iraq to help build the utopian Rojava, but ended up in prison for 40 days.
Matt Blake
2.23.18
porn

UK Porn Is About to Change in a Way You're Not Going to Like

How the government has given the shady company that controls the majority of free porn tube sites carte blanche to take over completely.
Matt Blake
11.24.17
Broadly DK

What It's Like to Stand Alongside the Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS

Kimberley Taylor is the first British woman to fight ISIS in Syria. In her final diary for Broadly, she takes us inside the radical feminist utopia being built by Kurdish women in Northern Syria.
Kimberley Taylor
5.20.17
ISIS

Surprising Things I Learned as a Woman Fighting ISIS

Kimberley Taylor is the first British woman to go and fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces in Syria. Read part one of her exclusive three-part diary here.
Kimberley Taylor
5.19.17
VICE Long Reads

How Britain's Oldest Road Became Overrun With Sex Shops

Head up the A1 and you'll notice sex-based businesses everywhere. We called in at each one to work out why the old Great North Road has become such a popular spot for sexy stuff.
Matt Blake
Matt Blake, Photos: Chris Bethell
8.24.16
News

What It's Like to Fight ISIS in Iraq as a Westerner

Mike, a 54-year-old dance teacher from England, spent six months in Iraq battling the Islamic State. We spoke to him about his time there and how he thinks the battle can be won.
Matt Blake
6.29.16
VICE Long Reads

Sådan kan gopler, nano-robotter og nøgenrotter gøre mennesker udødelige


Vi talte med verdens førende eksperter inden for forlængelse af menneskers naturlige levetid for at høre, hvor tæt vi er på det evige liv.
Matt Blake
5.20.16
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