Culture

Yesterday the Channel Islands celebrated Liberation Day. Ben Gidley explains the grim realities of starving islanders and concentration camps

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar deconstruct the nationalist-populist conspiracy narratives that seek to divide and rule

Iain Overton draws on his personal experience to explore why the Prime Minister’s background may explain his mendacious approach to politics – and life

What links the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy to Coronavirus denial? Otto English has found a pattern...

Richard Heller and Peter Oborne peer into Wisden Cricketers Almanac for signs of the times

John Mitchinson explores the problematic legacy of one of the founding fathers of English radicalism

John Lubbock explores how the restitution of looted historical artefacts is being navigated by cultural institutions around the world

Ellin Stein looks at the power of moral complexity as played out in two BAFTA nominated films based on real events

Neha Maqsood considers the individual and collective experiences of the past year, which she argues should inform our post-pandemic existence

Craig Stennett explores the latest social media tactic adopted by Germany’s neo-Nazi groups

In the past week, the police was deployed as an instrument in Boris Johnson’s increasingly authoritarian agenda, argues Maheen Behrana

John Mitchinson explores the connection between liberty and fair play

Jon Bailes explains how the Golden Globe-winning part played by Rosamund Pike represents a new professionalised Gangster Paradise

Professor Chris Painter wonders how Britain has turned into such a radically different country in the space of a decade

The impact of COVID-19 has made it starkly clear to those who live disability that it's the imposed barriers of social organisation that makes them disabled, explains Penny Pepper

Chris Sullivan looks back at the role of painters and writers who co-opted 1930s technology and modernity to espouse far-right ideas

The Government’s ‘free speech’ proposals aim not to invite conversation but to shut it down – an Orwellian allegory of epic proportions, says Jonathan Lis

Russell Jackson with a primer on the surprisingly radical traditions of the British press and the 200 hundred-year-old battle cry ‘information is power’

Nathan O’Hagan catalogues the surprising conservatism of many radical musicians