Category: Guest Post

Voice, Democracy and the Future of Reform

4 February 2026 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, authors of The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy   Don’t be fooled by the silence. Australia is still catching its breath after the defeat of the Voice referendum in October 2023. The rejection...

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When the Mirror Lies: A Female Bodybuilder’s Battle with Fitness Tech and Body Dysmorphia

27 January 2026 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Asegul Hulus, author of Beyond the Metrics: The Psychological Impact of Fitness Technology on Self-Image and Social Anxiety Six months have passed since I stashed my fitness watch in a drawer. Not because it broke, but because I did. Being a dedicated female bodybuilder...

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Reflections on Bollywood’s Golden Age

9 January 2026 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jasmine Sofia Jannif, author of Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963) This book came to me late in life, but its origins go back to colonial heydays in the streets of Suva, Fiji, where with my father I watched...

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Cities Will Disappear

18 November 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Tony Fry, author of Disappearing Cities While the arrival of climate change is recognised by vast numbers of people globally, the scale and diversity of its impacts are not well comprehended. There is now a lot of data, and only a limited understanding, and...

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Hands, Music, Life: An Integrated Approach to Creative Health

29 October 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Pedro de Alcantara, author of Hands, Wrists, Fingers   My first clear memory of music is hearing my mother play a few sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti at the upright piano in our modest living room. I was five or six, and I remember walking...

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The Paradox of Thom Browne: How One Designer Redefined the Suit for the 21st century

21 October 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Benjamin Wild, author of Thom Browne In just over twenty years, Thom Browne has achieved something remarkable: he has made the grey suit revolutionary. The American designer’s distinctive uniform – cropped sleeves ending four inches above the wrist, trousers hemmed high above the ankle...

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Ada, meet Ada: bridging the two cultures

13 October 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Mark Seligman, author of AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature  Artificial intelligence has suddenly become real – or has it? To answer the question, we need a consensus definition of intelligence. We still don’t have one.   In the age of...

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Byron’s engagement with Eastern European writers: Mickiewicz and Pushkin

22 September 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jonathan Gross, author of The European Byron Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Chameleon Although there have been many studies of Byron’s European impact, I consider the Eastern European reach of Byron. Mazepa, a painting by Vernet (‘Mazepa and the Wolves’, 1826), and another study, by a...

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Play and the vitality of cities

5 September 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Duncan McDuie-Ra, author of Insurgent Play: Social Worlds of Urban Disruption   Play is intrinsic to human existence and to some non-human animals too. We can think of play in different ways; as creative and destructive, as individual and collective, as production and consumption,...

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Peter Winch on political legitimacy

28 August 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Lynette Reid, editor of Political Authority: Contract and Critique   I was a student (along with Olli Lagerspetz and others) of the British philosopher Peter Winch (1926–1997) in the last years of his life – the 1990s in Illinois. This was an era when...

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