Love Island - New Statesman

America’s Love Island moment affirms that degrading reality TV is all we can offer now.

Why are we monstering one individual for the outrageous behaviour reality TV rewards?

By Amelia Tait

Love Island knows to appear more progressive than Big Brother or There’s Something About Miriam – but it’s got the…

By Amelia Tait

Having been put through the wringer of discourse, the show’s format appears invincible – as an Islander would say: “it is what…

By Emily Bootle

For years, we have lamented Love Island as commercialised and insincere. But after the past 15 months, who actually cares?

By Sarah Manavis

“I was coming back here to tell you I love you”, “Two days?!”, “What time’s your flight?”, “What was your…

By Sarah Manavis

August is here. Summer is halfway over. And here I am again, left reflecting on why I spent yet another…

By Anna Leszkiewicz

Last Friday, Love Island 2019 contestants Amy Hart and Joanna Chimonides gave a joint interview to celebrity gossip site Closer…

By Sarah Manavis

When I was 17, the women’s clothes store where I worked in Birmingham crowned me the all-time worst sales rep.…

By Nathalie Olah

If you thought mid-2019 Britain couldn’t be more divided, you were wrong. Following months of contentious Brexit negotiations, it’s time…

By Emily Bootle

On 15 June 2017, the then 24-year-old former Stevenage footballer Mike Thalassitis walked into Love Island’s Mallorcan villa and on…

By Anoosh Chakelian

As well as pure escapism, the show can help young people unsettled by #MeToo learn the boundaries between what is and…

By Amelia Tait