Author: Alanna Byrne

Football brings us together – but that shared sense of a diverse and definitive collective identity needs to be built beyond the World Cup, Alanna Byrne

It is well documented that the beloved Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas had conflicting feelings about the town of his birth, Swansea.

There’s no longer any illusion: as technology rapidly advances, everything around us, both on and offline, is getting shitter.

As the polls closed in Gorton and Denton on 26 February, a clearly knackered Zack Polanski on BBC Newsnight was asked about a campaign leaflet distributed by the Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin claiming that “it takes more than a piece of paper to make somebody British”.