The hype economy

IN THE OLD DAYS, BLACK WAS NOT a cool colour. But no trend lasts forever, right? Surely we passed peak blackness with the Vantablack BMW a few years back. Because once you’ve hit the level of invisibi

Picture a bingo card of this year’s biggest trends and ask yourself how many of them your imaginary dabber blots out. Do you have a Labubu dangling from your Gimaguas shoulder bag? Did you race to the

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iea.org.uk In 2014, I predicted that “woke” – or what I called then “political correctness” – was going to get a lot worse, says Kristian Niemietz. “And so it did.” The use of the term “white privileg

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