The 8th of October marked the fifth annual ‘World Salmon Day’. This holiday was proposed by the food brand ‘Chicken of the Sea’ in 2015 to highlight the dietary benefits of the popular fish, in the hope that it would lead to “a long-term increase in [the public’s] heart and nutritional health.”

The heart of the public has been moved by salmon over the past five years, but perhaps not in the way that Chicken of the Sea would have expected. There is an increasing public ethical concern around fish suffering: over the past five years, fish welfare projects have…

What it means, what it doesn’t mean, and what happens next.

If you’re like me, living in the UK and distracted by our own politics, you may not be abreast of the celeritous developments this week in the USA. Last night the US congress impeached President Trump. This article will spell out in a nutshell what this means, and what the next few weeks are likely to entail.

In the United States certain public office bearers cannot be formally charged (indicted) with a crime. The precedent is to first remove figures from office, and then subject them to the criminal…

Even the very weakest forms of Artifical Intelligence pose significant existential risk.

It’s well-chronicled in sci-fi and popular science: someday soon we will create an artificial intelligence that is better at inventing than we are, and human ingenuity will become obsolete. AI will transform the way we live, making human labour obsolete. It’s the zeitgeist of this moment of our culture: we’re afraid the robots will rise up in a flurry of CGI metal. In 2018 thousands of AI researchers signed a pledge to halt development of Lethal Autonomous Weapons. The Open Philanthropy Project states strong AI poses risks of potentially ‘globally catastrophic’ proportions.

But I think the most immediate risk of…

I clearly remember reading a sentence in the New York Times two years ago. It’s rare to be touched this way by an article right? Newspapers are a disposable medium, and the words within them are here-and-gone, given only a moment in the sun before being replaced in the editorial churn. The paper I read is long since in the New York Society Library’s recycling bin. I can’t think of any other newspaper passage that’s stuck with me. But this one has, and that sentence returns to me often. This article was from a short autobiographical piece by the (excellent)…

I went out for brunch this weekend with my cousin. It’s a trendy spot, freshly opened on my street in Edinburgh. On offer are all varieties kinds of smoothies, bowls, and pancakes — but there was one vital thing missing. And it’s easy to understand why my favourite meal would be excluded from the menu of a fashionable new café. I’ve heard a lot of scrutiny levelled at the fried breakfast, or ‘Full Breakfast’ recently. Carb heavy, containing an unspecified variety of meats and starchy foods, it’s the antithesis of modern plant-based, low-sugar dietary trends. Despite this, I think it…

This article contains spoilers for Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood!

Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood follows in a long line of Tarantino movies which have drawn both praise and criticism. While regarded an excellent film in terms of craftsmanship, ample criticism has been levied at Tarantino’s choices in portraying real-life actor and murder victim Sharon Tate.

The Indepdendent’s Clémence Michallon notes Robbie was given a “ludicrously scant” number of lines, considering she is leading lady in a story that revolves around her character. Vulture says that it was a ‘letdown’ not to see Margot Robbie get murdered like…