Mental Health

“We have more shared interests than differences today. We need to champion that shared struggle as young people in a world beyond pandemic.” THE FACE hits the streets of Northern Ireland to find out how Covid politicised young people.

“My old man lives in England so he’d get out of lockdown and be able to go get a haircut or go to the pub, and we’d be here, unable to do bugger all besides go to work and go home.” With more Covid deaths per capita than anywhere else in the UK, youth in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, have been through a lot. THE FACE discovers how they tried – and struggled – to recover.

The Liverpudlian spoken-word performer, real name PJ Smith, released his debut collection Algorithm Party to critical acclaim. Now he’s taking his hilarious, observational stories about addiction and anxiety around the UK.

Feeling kind of crap about yourself? Wrong! In the immortal words of RuPaul, “If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”

In Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, by drawing from his own experience, Sam Levinson showed us everything we knew Euphoria could still be: a poignant and emotional story of addiction.