Challenger: the banks shaping the future
Can the flashy financial contenders change the banking game with their digitally-led approach?
Life
The state of your plate debate
Volume 4 Issue 001: Cook Magnus Reid hosts a booze-fuelled round-table with London's foremost foodies.
How porn has influenced our deepest desires
Future of Sex founder Bryony Cole talks to XConfessions director Erika Lust and sextech industry experts Lora Haddock, Justin Lehmiller, SX Noir to determine the future of fucking.
What fame does to your brain
Volume 4 Issue 001: Colour-changing fish, hardwired monkeys and a cocktail of feelgood chemicals. Catch that buzz – fame is the drug that we’re thinking of.
What could going to Mars do to your body?
Two of the world’s leading space scientists spell out the depressing reality of travelling into deep space.
Sex on acid
Volume 4 Issue 001: We speak to the sexual psychonauts trying to reclaim intimacy from plastic porn and meaningless sex.
Circus Exodus
Volume 4 Issue 001: How wildlife experts Chris Packham and Charlotte Corney are liberating traumatised big cats from circuses across Europe.
Eaglewatch
Volume 4 Issue 001: Tagging birds of prey and retrieving dead bodies: in Scotland on the trail of the raptor harassers.
Sexcam therapy
Inside the cam site offering psychosexual therapy to anxious users.
Naomi Osaka comforts Coco Gauff after US Open defeat
Photo of the day: Tearful Cori Gauff of the United States alongside opponent Naomi Osaka of Japan, following Osaka's win at the Women's Singles third round match, on Saturday 31st August.
“I feel like I’ve lost a best friend”
One lifelong Bury fan on his anger, sadness and – ultimately – pride, following his beloved team’s expulsion from the Football League.
Reading Festival: inside the post-GCSE mecca
Results in, school's out.
All the books we hated in school , but now love
Somehow, with a decade between us and the assigned reading of The Great Gatsby, it’s much easier to stomach the green light.
Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever
Photo of the day: A child of the Mura tribe stands in front of a deforested area of indigenous land, inside the Amazon rainforest. Taken near the near town of Humaitá, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, on 20th August.
Elon Musk: a cheat sheet
He’s determined to send humans to Mars, wants to insert AI into our brains and got so fed up with the LA traffic that he started a company to build a tunnel underneath the city. Is there anything that Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn’t do?
Trip Epiphanies: help, mushrooms made me bisexual!
How one bad trip sent a gay man into a sexual kerfuffle.
In praise of Skyrim’s oldest mystery
How a collection of insect jars led to years of conspiracy theories.
Poppers: reviewed from best to worst
From the dancefloor to a dick date, poppers give you an extra lift that lasts all of 10 seconds. But which different brands should you avoid? And which should you take back to the bedroom? We get to the bottom of it.
Daniel James scores on his Premiership debut
Photo of the day: Man Utd’s Daniel James celebrates scoring their fourth goal with Scott McTominay, Marcus Rashford and team mates at the Manchester United v Chelsea match at Old Trafford stadium on 11th August.
Meet the people making money through the thotshot economy
Selling nudes or partial-nudes is becoming big business and even those with small social followings are getting involved. Moya Lothian-Mclean investigates the new era of sex work.
The Big Mood: Mercury goes direct
One week, one mood: Moya Lothian-Mclean’s deep-dive into the feel of the week.
