A quote for January 2025.

I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice—but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.

—Rebecca Shaw

From ‘I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down—I just didn’t expect them to be such losers,’ The Guardian, 17 January 2025.

Photography by James Lee.