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There's a conversation happening at the moment that keeps showing up in the news, in comment sections, in group chats, quietly at first, but a lot louder in recent weeks. The murmurings of war. More specifically, the question of whether young people would be willing to fight in one. For most people my age in the UK, the answer is a fairly decisive no. Honestly? I don't think that answer is nearly as shameful or selfish as some would like us to believe. The ask Conscription is

Ever had a week where you just can't seem to get anything right? It probably wasn't incompetence. It was evolution. Here's what's actually going on in your brain when you feel like you're failing at everything.

As 2026 begins, the world expects us to wake up as a brand new person. Unfortunately, my brain is still running the 2025 software… and apparently so is my hairline, according to my targeted ads.