Booker shortlisted author, Daisy Johnson’s Long Wave is multi-generational story of secrets, obsessions, longing, trauma and love, close to the shore is the island, uninhabited, wild with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she has a baby of her own, the job of motherhood feels immense and sleepless nights begin to shatter her grip in reality. Her head fills with the sound of stones knocking against each other and the mystery of her past begins to unravel opening up a path … Continue reading Exhaustion that feels “like a suffocating, papery snow”

“Femme fatale of the London/Polish art scene.” Warsaw-born Marta Lola Boros revels in being “Baroque and Gothic, creative and capricious”. Poetry evening white daybreak by Marta Lola Boros, Studio Sienko Gallery,, lantern street, London 2nd July 2026. Marta Lola Boros, poet performed with musical back up from her new catalogue of poetry on 2nd July 2026. She has also exhibited her artworks at the same venue recently at the Gallery Sienko. Recently she gave music artist Boy George a portrait of him by her. She continues to paint and write so look out for her next show, White Daybreak Poems by Marta Lola … Continue reading Marta Boros

Close Relationships with Strangers is about  Ben, a Las Vegas wildlife photographer who moves to Los Angeles to become paparazzo and in the process loses his relationships, his morals, and eventually his tether to reality. Reviled by celebrities and the public, Ben is one of the last remaining paparazzi scouring the streets of Los Angeles. Amateurs with camera phones, social media, and a lack of bonafide stars have slowly killed a once essential role in the Hollywood apparatus Jack Whitlock is one of last remaining A-listers, and Ben has followed his career since the years he spent bussing tables at a … Continue reading Streets of Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the desert in between

George Polk Award-winner Theo Baker’s portrait of Standford and his gripping account of how a tip turned into a history-making investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, and a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris. Slush funds, Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favoured teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin Sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands … Continue reading Inventors lounging with Olympians

Predictions are powerplays in disguise, obfuscating accountability. Not only do modern predictions made by the companies advise on war, industry and marriages, but artificial intelligence also now determines whether we can get a loan, a job, an apartment, or an organ transplant. And when we cede ground to these predictions, we lose control of our own lives. Drawing on history’s cautionary tales and modern-day tech companies’ malfeasance- from surveillance and biased algorithms to a startling lack of accountability – Carissa Véliz demonstrates that big tech’s prophecies are just as shallow, dangerous and unjust as their ancient counterparts’. Véliz uncovers in … Continue reading Predictions are Powerplays in disguise

The 2nd Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) commences in just one week. Running 2-5 July at Odeon Luxe West End, MIFF presents a programme of acclaimed films from the UK and across the world including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Algeria and Palestine, with topics ranging from racial profiling to celebrating the sacred pilgrimage of Hajj, altogether showcasing the breadth and intricacies of Muslim storytelling. Festival director Sajid Varda says why a festival like MIFF is so important right now, and what audiences can expect.  RETURNING FOR 2nd EDITION:MUSLIM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REFLECTS THE BREADTH AND INTRICACIES OF MUSLIM STORYTELLING Opening gala HIJRA, closing gala HUMAN TIDE, plus … Continue reading Muslim International Film Festival

As Trump is blowing up political order making it an explosive world, Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy and Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At a time when every crisis bleeds into the next- from pandemics and wars to climate shocks and AI revolutions – the old rules of global order are collapsing. Mark Leonard reveals how geopolitics is being rewritten in an age of “Un-Order”, where no one agrees on the rules, and even the concept of order itself us up for debate. Drawing on years of conversations with leaders and thinkers form Beijing to Washington, Leonard … Continue reading Age of “Un-Order” where no one agrees on the rules in tomorrow’s world