Perspective

In his special report "A calamity of lost youth", @toby00green looks at the high number of deaths among young people. Alarming but largely ignored by the media and politicians: perspectivemag.co.uk/a-calamity-of-… AND @ONS has changed the way it counts people who have died! #ExcessDeaths

For decades, science fiction warned us about dystopian futures. But some writers argue those visions aren’t predictions, they’re thought experiments. And the stories we choose to believe may shape the future we build. perspectivemedia.com/past-futures/ #PerspectiveMedia #ScienceFiction

Once the fourth-largest inland sea on Earth, the Aral Sea has nearly vanished. What remains is a toxic desert, a history of secret Soviet bioweapons testing, and a landscape so strange it gave rise to UFO stories and time-bending legends. perspectivemedia.com/the-place-of-n… #PerspectiveMedia

What began with a suspicious bank statement uncovered a disturbing reality: an elderly woman had been quietly defrauded by the people meant to care for her. perspectivemedia.com/trussst-in-me/ #PerspectiveMedia #Defrauded #Fraud #CareFraud

When judges couldn’t tell the difference between real poetry and AI-generated entries, it sparked a bigger question: if machines can create like us, what happens to the meaning of creative work? perspectivemedia.com/ai-a-wake-up-c… #PerspectiveMedia #AI #ChatGPT #AITakeover

After emails surfaced showing supportive messages from Peter Mandelson, the family of Virginia Giuffre questioned why someone with those associations was ever appointed UK ambassador to the US. What do you think? perspectivemedia.com/mandelson-shou…

Billionaires preparing for the apocalypse isn’t a conspiracy theory anymore. The same people shaping the modern economy are also building escape plans from its worst outcomes. What do you think bunker culture says about the future? perspectivemedia.com/bonkers-bunker… #PerspectiveMedia

Frustration with U.S. politics has reached a strange point. Some people are starting to wonder if an economic crash is the only thing that would wake voters up. Do you think economic pain actually changes how people vote? perspectivemedia.com/fight-madness-… #PerspectiveMedia #USEconomy

We spoke with Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People, the book that changed how Britain talks about food. From ultra-processed products to poverty, he argues this isn’t about personal failure, it’s about a food system designed this way. perspectivemedia.com/chris-van-tull…

For decades, politicians have promised to “stop the boats” while quietly relying on the labour that keeps the economy running. Fear makes good headlines. Facts make inconvenient policy. Migration isn’t a glitch in the system. It’s part of how the system works. #Migration

They tried to turn her body into the punchline. She refused to play along. At 23, on her first TV appearance, she said no, and didn’t buckle. This is what everyday sexism looked like behind the scenes. This is what resistance looked like, too. perspectivemedia.com/doon-mackichan/

Tim Pears discusses how an unruly cocker spaniel named Cocoa, chaser of squirrels, barker at helicopters, terror of ducks, became the unexpected rhythm of his writing life. Can chaos be the secret to creativity? perspectivemedia.com/spaniel-storie… #PerspectiveMedia #SpanielStories

Toronto is celebrated as a multicultural success story, but does opportunity always mean belonging? Gabrielle Bauer explores the hidden emotional barriers beneath the city’s diverse surface. perspectivemedia.com/deceptive-dive… #PerspectiveMedia #Multicultural #Toronto #Diversity

Virginia Woolf knew it in 1929: what men cared about was called important; what women lived was called trivial. Persephone Books has spent 25 years proving that was a lie. perspectivemedia.com/francesca-beau… #PerspectiveMedia #VirginiaWoolf

In a world obsessed with speed and suffering, Édouard de Pomiane wrote about something quietly radical: pleasure. His cooking wasn’t about complexity or performance, but about paying attention, to time, memory and the small acts that make life feel richer. perspectivemedia.com/the-food-philo…

Christmas indulgence is celebrated, but for many, it comes with guilt and dread. We know government intervention works (smoking bans, salt reduction, the sugar tax), yet we still frame weight as personal failure. Do you agree? perspectivemedia.com/the-obesity-cr…

We keep talking about the 2020s as if excess was inevitable, but history doesn’t repeat cleanly. Instead of rebellion, there’s retreat. Maybe this isn’t a failure of joy, but a reflection of a world that feels too fragile to be careless in. perspectivemedia.com/all-that-jazz/

International law exists to restrain power, not accommodate it. When accountability is undermined, the damage extends far beyond one conflict, it weakens the entire global order. perspectivemedia.com/might-is-not-r… #PerspectiveMedia #InternationalLaw #Power #RestrainPower

We’ll rally to save one sheep, yet ignore the quiet loss of birds and habitats across Britain. Our countryside isn’t truly wild, it’s shaped by how we farm and what we eat. Can food security and nature coexist? perspectivemedia.com/let-them-eat-t…

Speed dating at 45+ isn’t about sex in a bush, it’s about intimacy, ageing, and how desire evolves when the bell rings. Queer desire doesn’t fade with age, it deepens. Do you agree? perspectivemedia.com/lesbian-speed-… #PerspectiveMedia #Journalism #SpeedDating #Queer #QueerDesire

A conversation with Tessa Hadley on girlhood, desire and the quiet moments that divide life into before and after. Reflecting on The Party, she explores how curiosity, sexuality and risk shape women long before they have the language to understand them. perspectivemedia.com/tessa-hadley/