RACHEL  CONNOLLY

  I wrote about...

• My ‘year in gossip’ for Hazlitt’s Year in Review series.

• Tailoring, fast fashion and Belfast in the Letter of Recommendation for The New York Times Magazine. 

• Those essays that are like ‘this thing is late capitalism’ for The Baffler.

• The endlessly bland offerings of high street clothes shops for The Guardian. 

• The double standards that arise from the way we interact with criticism on social media for Elephant Magazine. 

• How nice it is to change your mind and the perils of stubborness for Novara Media.

• My love of advice columns and how they lack a clear resolution for The Guardian.

• A certain kind of front facing comedy video (that I call the ‘funny voice videos’) and British people’s perception of satire for The London Review of Books (online)
  

• The new Cruella movie and being a bad person (my favourite topic) for Art Review.

• Cat Person and the limits of power dynamic analysis for The NewStatesman.

• The moral panic over increased ‘workplace surveillance’ during the pandemic, and the long history of monitoring employees for The Guardian.
  

• The problem with millennial commentary that frames ~us all~ as financially precarious for The Guardian. 

• The trend for art exhibitions celebrating the hedonism of rave culture, while raving irl becomes more corporate and sanitised for The TLS.

• How a change in working habits during the pandemic could fix the ‘London bubble’ and make it a more livable city for The Guardian.

• The weirdness of Elon Musk launching a rocket in the middle of a pandemic for The Baffler.    

• The hysterical discourse around AI, and its many limitations, for The London Review of Books (online).

• Why I don’t think we should go back to work in offices anytime soon for The Guardian.

• Sphynx cats: the hairless sensation sweeping the nations for The Outline (RIP).

• The people who dox criminals who have been granted anonymity for Tortoise.

• How UK politicians are obsessed with nuclear war but don’t seem to care at all about climate change for The Guardian.

• How much I love parks for Prospect.

• What facial recognition means for our privacy in the context of private companies for The Baffler.

• Where the photos used in facial recognition software actually come from (i.e. all over the internet) for The London Review of Books (online).

• Why I wish we had state-funded internet for The Guardian.

• The inherent racism of cutting age genetic research, which is mostly based on European genetic data for The Baffler.

• How social media has changed grieving for The London Review of Books (online).

• How ‘cancelling’ can be a way to reframe personal disputes as structural offences for Prospect.