Culture

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

Reverend Joe Haward explores the current parallels around power, propaganda and patriotism with the First World War

Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu argue that Britain cannot ignore the Conservative kulturkampf, and that one way to combat the mythologising of politics is to expose the politics of the myths

Otto English explores why the Brexit battle’s successor should be pushed back against now – if Britain is to be stopped from continuing down a much darker path still

Hardeep Matharu reports on how the history of the English countryside has turned into a dangerous battleground as various forces try to provoke an uncivil culture war

As Donald Trump faces an unprecedented second Senate trial, journalist Craig Unger tells Heidi Siegmund Cuda that the most terrifying aspect of modern America is the things that are still legal