The Kids are Alright

As the UK government pushes ahead with plans to restrict social media access for under 16s amid growing concerns over mental health, screen addiction and online safety, the debate about today's teenagers has never felt more relevant. But before we dismiss an entire generation as lazy, entitled or permanently glued to their phones, perhaps it's worth asking whether our assumptions about "kids these days" are as accurate as we think.

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Constanza Martinez
Bye Bye Dubai

Prepare the valet parking, increase the rosé inventory, and emotionally accept that another crypto guy named “Max” is about to explain “macro positioning” at every beach club from Puerto Banús to Estepona. Dubai residents are flooding back to Marbs! Up and down the coast long forgotten “friends” are calling for a “catch up”.

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Constanza Martinez
Rapid Replacement

If you think AI is only coming for your spreadsheets, your customer-service chats, and your uncle who believes he’s irreplaceable at the accounting firm because “only he knows where the staplers are,” think again. The AI revolution is just getting warmed up. There are countless human roles no one’s even considered are replaceable, but oh, they are. They’re so replaceable, in fact, that AI is probably already practicing in a secret underground server farm, rehearsing its takeover monologue.

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Constanza Martinez
The Great Christmas Present Panic

Ah, Christmas. That magical time of year when we all lose our minds and start spending money we don’t have on people we don’t like. Honestly, it’s the only time of year when wrapping up soap and a small bit of ribbon can make you look generous. And don’t even get me started on the glitter. You find it everywhere until April. I once found a bit in my bra. I still don’t know how.

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Constanza Martinez
Digital ID is coming

Okay, so we’re doing digital IDs now? Great. Because carrying around a real one in my overstuffed purse was just too convenient, right? Like, I’ve always wanted to entrust my entire identity to my phone, the same phone I dropped in the toilet last week while watching TikToks in the bathroom.

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Constanza Martinez
DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE

The idea of an underwater tunnel across the globe has been floating about for over a century, although remaining nothing more than an extravagant pipe dream. The mother of all pipe dreams perhaps.

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Constanza Martinez