Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

After a year that has whiplashed between genius and landfill, here are the 25 films from across the world that justified the obsession and proved cinema still has bite, pulse, humour, fury, and the ...