Last year I asked whether Black Friday was good for British retailers. This year I’m wondering whether it’s good for consumers. Are we really getting the best deals of the year or simply tricked into spending more in one single day?
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We live in a world with access to more information than all of the world's university libraries combined. So why, with all this access, "post-truth" is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year and potentially "one of the defining words of our time"?
"Post-truth" as defined in the dictionary is an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals. Although the word has been in use since 1992, it's been rising in popularity, which coincides with the rise in social media being the 'go-to' news source. And what's wrong with that?
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Earlier this month, a Vice story focused on how the death of Thailand’s king has changed Thai fashion, with black recently becoming the country’s most popular colour. The interplay between real world events and fashion is incredibly interesting and, though I haven’t heard of any Brits wearing darker tones as a result of Brexit, I often wonder what will happen to UK fashion in the wake of Britain’s departure from the EU.
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