TRASHFUTURE

What a whirlwind week it’s been. For starters, Jeremy Corbyn gave the Lib Dems and CUK/TIGs an offer they would normally not be able to refuse, but instead refused because (as we knew all along) they ...

19 Aug 20191h 11min

We did it. We drove from London to Edinburgh with all our equipment in tow, climbed a fucking medieval staircase in a downpour, got soaked to the damn bones, and then played a (sold out!!!!) show at t...

18 Aug 201910min

It's a special episode featuring only the loveliest of accents. This week's bonus features Milo with guests Aidan 'Taco' Jones, Dan Muggleton, and Pope Lonergan. It's a bunch of comedians telling some...

14 Aug 201910min

A broad swath of modern reactionary and xenopobic sentiment tries to employ fake medieval history to create a fantasy version of Europe. Whether it’s Middle Earth or some bullshit about Agincourt, the...

12 Aug 20191h 1min

Why call it history when you can call it ‘progress studies’? This week, Riley (@raaleh), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice @AliceAvizandum  join writer and PhD student Annie Kelly to discuss Steven Pi...

5 Aug 20191h 9min

You wanted to hear more Quillette close-reads, so here it is. We discuss the most bootlicking of all pro-Amazon pieces to ever appear, plus a bizarre 2006 op-ed about shoes from Rafael Behr. Our speci...

2 Aug 201910min

We’ve all written something that was maybe a little over the top, though mercifully none of us has written for Quilette. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Olga (@rocknrolga ), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice...

29 Jul 20191h 13min

Did you know that Riley's hometown newspaper is run by horse people? Did you know that there's a Code Pink-style group that stalks people who work at the Seattle Zoo's elephant enclosure? Did you know...

25 Jul 20192min