"Two Just Stop Oil protesters who threw cake at a waxwork of King Charles in October have been ordered to pay £3,500 in compensation to Madame Tussauds."

"It’s the first country in the world to do so"

"The Czech writer died nearly a century ago, but is enjoying a renaissance on TikTok and Twitter"

How to "kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections."

"The geopolitical economy of deglobalization."

"Japan’s Cold War education policy used religion to ‘make’ the ideal humans needed by its nascent economy. Did it work?"

"On gold extractivism in Turkey and resistance."

"We are experiencing a crisis of trust in online media. The internet has taught us to distrust TV pundits, news media and other authority figures (often rightly so), yet has failed to provide tools to help us identify who we should trust. _...Read More_

"Alex Estorick: You’ve both been heavily involved with the NFT community over the past year, so I’d like to start with some reflections. If 2021 was the year of the NFT explosion, what was 2022 the year of?"

"Thelonious Monk had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop."

"A slab of pink stands on a shimmering gold base, its surface iced with globules of a glossy blue substance the colour of bubblegum and the look of buttercream. Nearby is a collection of smaller forms, all also brightly daubed like cakey _...Read More_

"The artist’s work is characterised by a sense of mystery, maybe even nonexistence"

"Cometh the hour, cometh the man. The artist and knight of the realm is on a quest to save the nation from its worst tendencies"

"The civilization state is reemerging and taking us beyond the opposition between liberalism and nationalism."

"Forget Y2K, the 2010s are back – at least until the nostalgia-fueled trend cycle’s next turn. But retromania leads us down into a labyrinth of data horror, writes Adina Glickstein in her February column. "