There was a time when chain-smoking connoted a rugged, implicitly countercultural glamour: I once knew a musician who insisted on posing fag-in-mouth in his promotional photos, despite being a ...

The man is Adrian Laird-Craig, an ‘extreme litter picker’, and as he unfurls the fagged sheet, he points out how it is disintegrating into fragments, over time becoming microplastics which float "down ...

Sally Rooney’s second novel begins with an unlikely romance between two sixth-formers in County Sligo. Connell is a ‘culchie’ from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, a popular lad who plays ...