Owain Anderson

mental health

I Lost Three People to Suicide in One Year

Here were three loved ones from separate walks of life, all with different experiences of mental illness but the same heartbreaking outcome.
Madeleine Pollard
12.11.20
Money

I Wrote an Ebook to See How Much Easy Money I Could Make Online

Writing an ebook is often touted as a quick way to make some cash – but is that true if you don't have a blue tick or thousands of Instagram followers?
Hayden Vernon
8.3.20
housing

What Newly Government-Approved 'Slum Housing' Could Look Like

Permitted Development Rights allows for flats to be built in empty office buildings – and as small as 157 square-foot.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
7.31.20
police

Know Their Names: Seven Stories of Police Brutality in Europe

You don't have to look to the US to find Black people and people of colour dying during or after an arrest.
Bianca Ferrari
6.16.20
Coronavirus

One Country Has Been Taking More Benzos Than Any Other During Lockdown

And more findings from the preliminary results of the Global Drug Survey's Covid-19 study.
David Hillier
6.2.20
Sports

We Asked Gen-Z Kids: Is PE Still the Most Hellish Class at School?

There's a reason so many of us regularly "forgot our kit". But has anything changed?
Louis Staples
10.3.19
Fill Me In

Botox and Filler 'Parties' Are a Thing – Just Not in the Way You Think

At-home gatherings involving clients sloshed on booze and needles? They're around if you know where to look.
Jennyfer J. Walker
9.25.19
mental health

What It's Like to Be Diagnosed With Depression at Eight Years Old

"In the fourth grade, getting up each day was a battle for me and my parents. I began finding it difficult to walk. I started getting excruciating headaches."
Kieron Passaway
4.24.19
Features

Xanny, Make It Go Away: How Benzos Infiltrated UK Music

The anti-anxiety prescription drug hopped over the Atlantic to impact DJs, producers and fans alike.
Nilu Haidari
3.21.18
we saw this

Acid, Angels, Opera: An Ode to Two of Britain’s Greatest Artists

Maverick composers Mica Levi and Dean Blunt came together for an opera that left our writer with more questions than answers.
Niloufar Haidari
11.13.17
fandom

Seven Fans Explain How Their Favorite Bands Saved Their Lives

We speak to the fans whose love for a particular artist pushed them back from the brink.
Tom Connick
10.3.17
Fandom Week

“Your Band Saved My Life”

We speak to the fans whose love for a particular artist pushed them back from the brink.
Tom Connick
9.28.17
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