Lifestyle & Culture SOCIETY
What Soft Skills Are
Soft skills are the interpersonal and behavioural abilities, such as communication and teamwork, that shape how people work with others and handle…
Lifestyle & Culture
Books, ideas and society. Cubed News culture coverage in a premium, ideas-driven register — the cultural currents worth a considered read. Edited by Iris Calloway.
Lifestyle & Culture SOCIETY
What the Gig Economy Is
The gig economy is a labour market built on short-term, task-based work, often arranged through digital platforms and apps that match workers…
Lifestyle & Culture SOCIETY
What a Food Desert Is, and Why It Persists
A food desert is an area where residents have little access to affordable, healthy food, usually because supermarkets are far away.
Lifestyle & Culture SOCIETY
What Gentrification Is, and How It Reshapes Cities
Gentrification is when wealthier residents move into a poorer neighbourhood, pushing up costs and often displacing longtime locals.
Lifestyle & Culture FEATURE
How Museums Are Quietly Rethinking What They Are For
Once defined as places that collect and display objects, museums are redefining themselves around community, participation and care — a shift formalised…
Lifestyle & Culture FEATURE
How the Shape of a City Quietly Shapes Its Social Life
Whether you know your neighbours, walk to a café, or feel part of a place is not only about you. It is,…
Lifestyle & Culture ANALYSIS
Slow Reading and the Quiet Economics of Attention
A growing movement urges readers to slow down, read deeply and read whole books. Behind it lies a sharp economic insight: in…
Lifestyle & Culture FEATURE
The Case for Boredom and the Lost Art of Deep Rest
We have nearly eliminated boredom by filling every idle moment with a screen. A growing body of thinking suggests we lost something…
Lifestyle & Culture LONG READ
How the Coffeehouse Became an Engine of Public Life
From seventeenth-century London to the cafés of Vienna and Cairo, the coffeehouse has long been more than a place to drink. It…
Lifestyle & Culture EXPLAINER
What “Third Places” Are and Why Their Loss Matters
Not home, not work — the cafés, libraries, parks and pubs where community life informally happens have a name, and a growing…
Lifestyle & Culture ANALYSIS
Why We Reread Books We Already Know the Ending Of
Rereading makes no sense if a book is only an information delivery system. That so many of us return to the same…
Lifestyle & Culture FEATURE
The Quiet Revival of Physical Media in a Streaming Age
Vinyl outsells CDs, independent bookshops are multiplying, and film photography is back. The return to objects you can hold is less nostalgia…