“More and more young people are embarking on spiritual journeys,” writes Susan Akyeampong in her latest article, ‘Why Are So Many Young People Looking for God?’. In 2019, just 22 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds in the UK said they believed in God. By early 2025, that figure had more than doubled to 45 per cent. New research commissioned by the Bible Society reveals that, since 2018, the number of young men attending church has risen from 4 per cent to 21 per cent, while attendance among young women has grown from 3 per cent to 12 per cent. A similar trend can be seen in the US, where 46 per cent of Gen Z identify as Christian – many of them young boys and men. But what’s behind this religious revival? And why is this surge in faith and churchgoing largely concentrated in conservative Christian spaces?This week on the podcast, Halima Jibril and Elliot Hoste are joined by editorial director Ted Stansfield (our resident Christian) to unpack what’s drawing young adults to faith and spirituality, the reasons behind the striking gender divide and whether online trends like #tradcath and “Catholic chic” are making Christianity more attractive to the chronically online.Related articles: Why Are So Many Young People Looking for God? by Susan AkyeampongTrump and the changing face of America’s young evangelicals by Laura Pitcher Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Why aren’t we talking about female radicalisation?
Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s Adolescence has sparked vital conversations around the radicalisation of young boys and men. However, writer Esme Hood argues that while these discussions are crucial, they often overshadow an equally pressing issue: the radicalisation of young women.From platforms like Tumblr normalising self-harm and eating disorders content, subtly desensitising girls to violence and control to “tradwife” aesthetics that repackages far-right values in aesthetically pleasing, hyper-feminine forms, framing submission and domesticity as aspirational.In this episode, Halima Jibril and Elliot Hoste sit down with Hood to unpack the gendered nuances of radicalisation, question why female susceptibility is so often overlooked and ask how we combat this quiet but profoundly effective form of propaganda online.Related articles: We need to talk about female radicalisation by Esme Hood Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The problem with Adolescence
Since its release on Netflix last month, Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s Adolescence is all anybody has been talking about. The British crime drama television mini-series centres on a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school. The show has reinvigorated conversations about the manosphere, incels and the rise of misogyny among young boys and men. In this week’s episode, Halima Jibril and Elliot Hoste are joined by our deputy editor, Serena Smith, to discuss the show’s popularity, the Labour government’s new initiative to show Adolescence in schools, the problems with the way we discuss toxic and positive masculinity, and so much more. Related articles: ‘The problem with Adolescence’ by Serena Smith ‘Are young men really doomed?’ by Halima Jibril Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What’s going on with fashion’s musical chairs?
Since March 2024, the fashion world has stepped into an alternate timeline. In the last 12 months, we’ve seen a frankly ridiculous number of creative directors change jobs, with announcements happening days and sometimes even hours apart. Right now, the biggest houses in fashion are simultaneously refreshing their top teams – referred to by fans online as a game of “musical chairs.”Whether you love that phrase or not, it’s here to stay, with everyone from Chanel and Gucci to Versace and Loewe catching the bug. While it’s fun to speculate who’s going where (as you’ll find out in this episode), why is this all happening now, and what does it say about how the industry values the creativity of its designers? Behind the constant commentary, there are also teams of very real people dealing with the rumours and subsequent fallout.In this episode, fashion writer Elliot Hoste is joined by editorial director Ted Stansfield and fashion director, editorial & commercial partnerships Emma Davidson to discuss the “unprecedented” reshuffle and its online culture, run through all the rumoured appointments, address the white male elephant in the room, plus make some suggestions for vacant positions at Balenciaga, Fendi, Dior and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Are we all severed?
Dan Erickson’s critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series Severance has returned for its second season. The show centres on Lumon, a mysterious corporation that has developed a novel medical procedure known as ‘severance’. This process allows employees to split their professional (“innie”) and personal (“outie”) identities via a microchip implanted in their brains. The chip activates when descending to the eerie severed floor, erasing all memories of their outside lives. Conversely, once they leave the office, they have no recollection of what they do from nine to five.Severance is a brilliant and complex exploration of late-stage capitalism, identity, loss, and belonging. While often described as a dystopian sci-fi series, our deputy editor, Serena Smith, argues in her latest essay, “Are we all severed?” that its world is eerily similar to our own. “How many of us contain parts of our identities just to get through the day? How many of us have gone to work while depressed, brokenhearted or grieving? On a macro level: how many of us have gone to work knowing that wars, famines, and genocides are happening? Arguably, under late capitalism – which prioritises work over all else – we’re all kind of severed.”This week on the podcast, Smith joins Halima Jibril to explore how capitalism forces us to split our identities, the consequences of ignoring pain and suffering and why the fragmentation of the self is such a compelling theme in popular culture.This episode contains spoilers for Severance seasons one and two. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dazed and Discoursed is a culture podcast by Dazed that delves into the most talked-about topics on the internet. Hosts Halima Jibril and Elliot Hoste take you through what's happening in popular culture today. Curious about the current state of beauty, why straight men don’t read fiction, or why 'girl’s girl' feminism is BS? We explore these questions and much more, every two weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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