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Una Mullally

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Picture 11 Attention interns past and present: we’re looking for your stories.

(Cartoon via the New Yorker)

Picture 11 Gut Renovation

A new film about gentrification questions the story of modern Brooklyn.

internship Innovation, inventing jobs, and the eradication of the middle class gig.

Thomas Friedman had a great piece in Sunday’s New York Times speaking to Tony Wagner, an education specialist at Harvard about his new book Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Wagner talks about how educators and …

Queer: when one person’s jibe is another’s sense of identity

I wrote this article about the word ‘queer’ in the paper today. A Liveline debate over the use of ‘queer’ in a pantomime review  highlighted the evolution of the word and its power to divide What’s in a word? On …

The case for man / woman marriage

*UPDATE: the Iona Institute video has been removed from YouTube* I didn’t think you’d need to build a case for man / woman marriage considering it already exists, but the Iona Institute did, and made this video: Then, Tara Flynn …

Rich Kids Of Instagram

If you’re trying to fill the void in your life left from the property porn of Cribs, the party porn of My Super Sweet Sixteen, and what was probably the best reality TV programme ever about vacuous teen wealth even …