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UK-based freelance journalist covering culture, politics, and specialising in feature writing. 

With support from the Journalism Diversity Fund, I am currently studying for my NCTJ in Multimedia Journalism. 

I have words in Dazed, The Times, Europinion, The Boar, and on my Substack, Opalesce. 

Commission me: katebevanjourno@gmail.com

Articles

Europinion •

Rutte Is Too Calm Before The Storm

Churchill may or may not have said – it’s an aphorism with cloudy provenance – that “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” NATO’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte may or may not believe it. After all, as American threats to obtain Greenland, a member of NATO via the Danish commonwealth, grow increasingly bellicose, the “Trump-whisperer” is all but silent. Adopting a ‘nothing to see here’ attitude with almost monkish flair, Rutte tol...
Opalesce •

What we can learn from Timothée Chalamet

Armed with the idiomatic hypothesis that ‘one man’s rubbish may be another’s treasure’, Timothée Chalamet has been testing the limits of fan loyalty. Embarking upon a highly unconventional press tour for the Josh Safdie film Marty Supreme, which began with a maniacal Chalamet successfully pitching a giant orange blimp to A24, detoured via Liverpool for a remix with rapper EsDeeKid, and ended with the actor becoming the first person to stand atop the Sphere in Las Vegas, Chalamet’s actions - love...
Europinion •

Was Affordability A Hoax When It Helped Get You Elected, Trump?

Like Barbie, Trump has a great day every day. And who wouldn’t?! Waking up in his golden Dreamhouse (ballrooms sold separately), Trump gets to decide his truth, the truth, on any given matter at any given time! In Trump Land anything can happen! The latest from Trump Land is that the American economy has never ever been better! Kicking off the battle for the 2026 midterm elections at a rally in north-east Pennsylvania – his first in five months – Trump united the crowd behind his truth about the...
Europinion •

I Was A Juror. Lammy’s Proposals Are Misguided.

Never has time felt more like a construct than in the jurors waiting room at Wolverhampton Crown Court – once inside, you’d be hard pushed to guess the decade let alone how long you’d be kept waiting. There are three clocks dotted along the pale blue walls and no television; the Wi-Fi works (just about). Fifties-style dinner ladies are arbitrarily summoned by a bell to dish out fish fingers, chips, and beans whilst queues spring up at the vending machines for hot drinks that poorly resemble latt...
Dazed •

Art is getting challenging again

The creative process behind Rosalía’s fourth studio album LUX was Sisyphean. If retreating into isolation in Los Angeles for the best part of three years and writing (and rewriting) lyrics in 13 different languages doesn’t sound like impossibly hard work, then I don’t know what does. No stranger to Herculean efforts, though, Rosalía persevered; LUX has seen the light of day, complete with features from Björk and the London Symphony Orchestra. However, the true challenge – the real metaphorical b...
Opalesce •

Milan or Paris: Who Won In The Great Fashion Reshuffle?

In the heads-up poker game otherwise known as ‘the fashion world in recent years’, Milan and Paris sit opposite each other - oversized sunglasses on - in a straight-faced duel for the jackpot of ‘Best Fashion Capital’. It is a game with higher stakes than usual; the luxury industry is collapsing around them as they play, and the fashion pack has been reshuffled beyond belief. Whilst this reshuffle has been curated over many years, the dealer took liberties in 2025: dubbed ‘The Great Fashion Reshuffle’, new designer appointments occurred every month of the year (excluding April and August), setting this September’s Spring 2026 ready-to-wear season up to be a blockbuster. Of the 15 designers making their debut this season, most of whom are (fashion) household names, the ones worth paying attention to were concentrated in Milan and Paris; naturally.
Europinion •

Starmer Has Finally Found A Story

Keir Starmer has always reminded me of one of those schoolteachers – the perfectly decent, dithering kind whom good kids pity, and bad kids prey on. The kind that starts the term brimming with do-gooder ideas only to have abandoned them before Week One is out, by which time the kids, launching questions and rogue glue sticks their way, have reinstated the law of the jungle. Maybe it was just my school…Except if the first 14 months of his premiership are anything to go by, then this image is no r...
Opalesce •

London Fashion Week Proves That British Culture Matters.

Scientifically speaking, the lifecycle of a star is straightforward. Culturally speaking, it is less so. Nepotism is not quite the nebula, the definitive birthplace of stars, nor could a cultural star in their prime parallel the steadfastness of the main-sequence star. As for fading stars, the cosmic kind go through a sort of celestial menopause, becoming red giants, which then retire along one of two paths: that of the white dwarf, or the explosive supernova (and eventual black hole). Again, the cultural kind resist and meander, rarely ever embarking upon a straightforward path to retirement. From old actors reeled back into tired, once stratospherically successful franchises, to musicians stuck on the ‘Greatest Hits’ circuit; from those re-releasing merchandise for their one-time, quasi-breakout character in a teen drama, to those, struggling in the PC world, that are born again as befuddled political reactionaries, the cultural midlife-crisis-insane-career-pivot of fading stars is anything but straightforward.
Opalesce •

New York Fashion Week Is Unsure Of Itself

Home to the very first Fashion Week, then Press Week, in 1943, New York makes a natural fashion capital. A city of superlatives, creatives flock to New York on account of it being the biggest and the boldest and the richest and the grittiest city that never ever sleeps, where rats and fashion inspiration run riot in equal measures. Many a legacy brand is housed here - think Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein. Many a supermodel, too. Oh, and Carrie Bradshaw (I mean the city was the fifth character). But, for a city with such spirit, such style, we find ourselves in a rather strange predicament; New York Fashion Week is unsure of itself. Not dead, as the cries go, but unsure.
Europinion •

No Artificial Ingredients - The Creative Industries Will Need To Strike A Balance With Al. What Might That Look Like?

Very rarely do last-minute plans disappoint in the MCI (mischief-chaos-intrigue) department; it is why I’d advise you never to turn them down. So, when I found myself invited, just a few weeks ago, to a last-minute dinner at Akub, a splendid Palestinian restaurant nestled in between London’s Kensington and Notting Hill, I knew that I simply had to go.
The Boar •

The Boar Magazine: Creative Submissions

A selection of poetry, prose, photographs and artwork submitted as part of The Boar Magazine.
 
Playing Cards, Katie Bevan

Sitting in the kitchen
Playing cards, Kings and Queens with their
Coronas
Caught in a rapid fire round.
“Are you still with your boyfriend?”
“Did you finish your essay?”
“Hey, it’s your turn!”
“For graduation, I’m thinking…”

You’ve been holding all the aces
On the dawn of a new round
Cards are dealt, the path set
And you think back to the faces
Of jokers, smiling
In that sticky kitchen
Where you were just playing cards.
The Boar •

‘We probably don’t see Warwick campus as a culture, but it is’: Warwick Clothes Circuit on What’s Warwick Wearing

Armed with a smartphone, tiny mic, and a keen eye for second-hand style, the exec of Warwick Clothes Circuit have taken on the guise of the modern-day hunter: the street-interviewer.
Inspired by the YouTuber, Not So Blonde, and her series What Are People Wearing in Paris?, Haneefah, Circuit’s Head of Social Media, saw an opportunity to showcase Warwick’s own sharp and sustainable dressers. 
“You really get a taste for somewhere, a destination, and a lot of inspiration and vulnerable bits of huma...
The Boar •

Generation style: Style icons through time

Physically, we have many tools to gauge something: thermometers, rulers, and beakers are just a few. Socially, we have less. In fact, to gauge the inner minds of those whose company we are gracing, there is a rather reliable social gauge that we often find ourselves turning to in times of faltering conversation: the dinner party. If you could have a dinner party with any three people, dead or alive, who would you pick?
It is a question of limited success, with an equal capacity for ice making as...
The Boar •

Trump and Harris' economic showdown

In the patchwork blanket of our lives, choices are the thread. From the seemingly inconsequential – ‘What do I wear today?’ – to the very consequential – ‘Who do I vote for?’ – each choice, and the subsequent decision we make, patches together the trajectory of our lives. And right now, the American people are hurtling towards a crucial fork in the road: on Tuesday 5 November, they will head to the polls to vote in this year’s presidential election.
For some, the choice is clear. Most of those i...
The Boar •

Why did children take part in the English riots?

On Monday 29 July, a ‘Taylor Swift Yoga and Dance Workshop’, aimed at children aged between 7 and 11 years old, was held in Southport. Intended as an all-singing, all-dancing, friendship-bracelet sharing, Swiftie safe space, the class should have been a chance for children to let off some steam in the endless stretch of summer that is the six weeks holidays. But unfortunately, this wasn’t to be the case.
At approximately 11:50am, Merseyside Police were called to reports of a mass stabbing. Liken...
The Boar •

The Dogue days of summer: When Vogue transformed into Dogue

In a Changing of the Guard that only fashion could envision, the blood-orange bikinis of August become the burgundy-red overcoats of September. Whilst this seems to be done in one swift action, the 31 August melting into the 1 September, the calendar page being ripped out to reveal leaves the colour of flames, there is, in fact, some liminal space between the two.

I like to call this space ‘Pre-Fashion Month’. Far from the black-coffee-fuelled marathons of creativity that are September, or fashi...
The Boar •

Gracie Abrams pours every emotion into ‘The Secret Of Us’

Rushing into your friend’s bedroom, a story bursting from your lips, its glorious yet embarrassing details reverberating around the room, whilst your friend sits there with an expression that is equal parts shock as it is bemusement and support, is a precious moment. The physical distance between you and your friend the blank page in a journal, your soundwaves the ink unfurling across it. It is a moment of frenzied confession, infused with a level of honesty, and insanity, that only a true best...
The Boar •

Couture Culture: 2024 Met Gala review

Once upon a time, in the dystopian and post-apocalyptic world fashioned by J.G. Ballard in 1962, there lived a Count and Countess. The Count and Countess enjoyed a decadent life in the lap of luxury, with rare books and rare paintings filling their Palladian villa, with the villa itself situated within an extensive and exquisite estate. Forming part of the estate, was a garden. This garden was filled with unusual blooms, with the most peculiar being the crystal time flowers.

One day an angry mo
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