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The Film that Changed My Life: Bonnie Greer on ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’
Filmed in blazing Technicolor, and starring Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, this film came like an explosion into my life.
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Europe’s Rule of Law Can No Longer Expect to Live Under the American Umbrella
In an extract from his discussion at the 2025 Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas, Philippe Sands explains the struggle underway over the future of the international justice system
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‘The Moment We Assess Human Value by Ability, Productivity or Achievement, We Lose Our Humanity Itself’
Stephen Unwin shares an extract from his new book exploring all he has learned on the journey so far with with his son Joey, who has severe learning disabilities
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The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Lord Heseltine – ‘Nigel Farage, Let’s Not Mince Our Language, Is Mr Trump’s Vicar in England’
Fifty years on from the UK’s 1975 referendum on its continued membership of the then European Communities, the former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister speaks to Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu about the future of our involvement in Europe, the rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic, and how Brexit has reshaped his party…
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What Have Politicians Got To Do with the Price of Fish?
Five years on from Brexit, Ian Perkes – who appeared in Byline TV’s 2024 documentary Betrayed – updates its co-producer George Llewelyn on life after leaving the EU as a fish exporter
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Another Future Is Still Possible for Keir Starmer’s Government
After a difficult start to his premiership, the Prime Minister can seize the opportunity to start delivering the kind of radical change he once promised, writes Adam Bienkov
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Life in the Plasticene
How our most miraculous invention is threatening to destroy us
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Political Musings – Rebellion! Tantrums! Tears!
That’s right: it is officially the teenage stage of the Starmer Government.
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Zeitgeisters – Dionne Brand
These are difficult times. The sense of being engulfed by a history one can’t control.
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Beyond Division: ‘Multicultural Nationalism’ and the White Working-Class
Labour must find a solution to the divisions being exploited by Reform UK and the Conservatives – a broader cohesive idea of our nation needs to be consciously created
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Why the ‘Lack of Loyalty’ Trope in Lord Tebbit’s Cricket Test Didn’t Work
Whatever Norman Tebbit hoped to achieve by asking Asian immigrants which cricket team they would support to determine their ‘Britishness’ has failed spectacularly, argues Shamik Das
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Lacking in Laughs and Access: The Disneyfication of the West End
