I punched a song into paper so a tiny box could play it
Hannah
Today was the exhibition for my Year 9 capstone, 2 June, and the whole project fits in a white box you can hold in two hands. It is a music…
The war thousands of miles away is about to show up on the electricity bill.
I left my lamp on again while I was reading. My mum said the sentence she always says, the one about the bill, and I almost answered that a lamp…
The same holiday flight cost about a quarter more than last year.
There is a family chat that only wakes up when someone says the word “flights.” It woke up this week. A parent had searched a summer date we talked about…
The law now says your school cannot make you buy a pile of logo kit.
I emptied my PE bag onto the bedroom floor this week because the zip had started eating itself, and the pile looked like a small shop had fallen over. Logo…
Netflix went up by as much as $2 a month. Again.
The email arrived the way they always do: polite, designed, a little proud of itself. Netflix is going up. Again. On 26 March they raised US prices for the second…
Cocoa beans got much cheaper. The Easter egg did not.
The Easter aisle arrived in the supermarket while I was still wearing a coat. Eggs in foil. Bunnies in boxes stacked too high. A price that made my mum do…
Netflix almost bought Harry Potter’s studio — then said the price was too high.
Last Sunday I rewatched a Harry Potter film because I had a World Literature paragraph to finish and a bad habit of rewarding myself first. Halfway through, a thought arrived…
A court said many US tariffs were illegal. Prices did not suddenly fall.
I still have a Shein bag folded under my bed from last year. The top inside cost less than my bus fare and a drink. I wore it twice, then…
TikTok in America got new owners. The For You page may change.
On 22 January, ByteDance closed a deal that puts TikTok in America into a joint venture called TikTok USDS. Most of it will be owned by American and global investors.…
A Chinese car brand sold more electric cars than Tesla for the first time.
The numbers landed on 2 January, which is a rude date for a plot twist. Tesla delivered about 1.64 million cars in 2025, down nearly 9%. BYD, a Chinese brand…