Culture

Broadcast journalists’ refusal to call-out the lies of the Prime Minister, his Cabinet members and the Government as a whole during the Coronavirus pandemic reveals the extent of the crisis engulfing the very fabric of truth in our society, observes Dorothy Byrne

Anthony Barnett had a dream about the future of Britain...

Hannah Charlton explores what the journey of the statue of a Bristol slavetrader is revealing about the wider historical moment the country finds itself in

John Mitchinson unearths some of the juiciest incidents turning the gossip mills of times past

From the Dirty Squad’s Soho days to Andy Coulson in the heart of government, Jake Arnott explains how bent coppers moved on from trading in porn and gold bullion, to information and kompromat

On the 40th anniversary of the hit song, Chris Sullivan finds its modern relevance terrifying

Otto English doesn't think the latest skirmish in the culture wars is a ‘dead cat’ but shows a generation of politicians bereft of ideas and obsessed with campus politics

Shane Thomas explores how notions of race, Englishness and football could be weaponised by the Prime Minister during Euro 2020

Gary Gowers looks forward to a very different European football tournament starting this week

The majority of people for the majority of history are a cauldron of contradictions and the Prime Minister’s controversial former chief advisor is no different, says Reverend Joe Haward

Brian Cathcart pays tribute to the Formula One boss who faced up to the sound and fury of Britain's feral tabloid press

Heidi Siegmund Cuda celebrates the proto-punk’s protest songs as epic short stories painting a history of radical anti-war, anti-establishment America

Racism, police brutality, inequality, ecology, the trauma of the Vietnam War and drug addiction, Chris Sullivan considers how the classic 1971 album explored what was really going on

John Mitchinson explains why we should listen to the farmers and why their plight deserves our attention

An institutional ignorance towards past protests informs Britain’s modern day antipathy towards radical dissent, says Shafi Musaddique

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...