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Cultural Demise: The Gutting of the Hospitality Sector is About More than Jobs
19 January 2021
, Chris Sullivan, who founded the Wag Club in Soho, considers the sad end of London’s Café de Paris and the future of the UK’s pub, bar and club industry

150 Years of History and Renewed Political Rivalries Will Charge the England-Scotland Euro Clash
16 January 2021
, Sports journalist Gary Gowers looks forward to Scotland’s clash with England in June and considers the historical baggage the game will bring with it

The Upside Down: Long Live the Elders! The Exemplary Life of Barry Lopez
8 January 2021
, John Mitchinson returns with his reflections on the final book of the late great American author and what it reveals about the demands on humans to evolve ethically in order to meet the many challenges on the horizon

The Despicable History of Imperial Food and Drink Still Casts A Shadow Today
4 January 2021
, Stephen Colegrave delves into the dark colonial past and historic human cost of the products Brits can’t seem to live without

Helluva Year! Boris Johnson’s 2020 Review
31 December 2020
, The Prime Minister has an 'Australian Style' litany of successes to celebrate in his first full year, as told to Otto English

The Idea of Europe: Peter and Markie’s Loon-Clad 70s Euro-Rampage
30 December 2020
, Hi-jacked while hitchhiking, knife fights with Germans, camping on French rubbish tips... now Britain’s divorce from the EU is finalised, Peter Jukes reflects on his teenage dreams of an ever-deeper union

Beyond the Lure of Empire: The Door of No Return
30 December 2020
, Bonnie Greer, a former British Museum trustee, observes the role of African Empires in her own roots and looks beyond possession and subjugation for true post-imperial thinking

Learning to Love: Liberating Speech from Hate Speech
29 December 2020
, Angelique Richardson explores how social media has fuelled its own Orwellian ‘two-minute hate’ and ways to combat the racial and social fragmentation it produces

‘Strongmen’: How a Crisis in Masculinity Paved the Way for Fascism
28 December 2020
, Heidi Siegmund Cuda speaks to the historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about the new global rise in authoritarianism and why the recent defeat of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election was so significant

Emerging From the Christmas Mire
24 December 2020
, The Government may not seem like it cares much for its people, but the common humanity which has emerged in this challenging year can still be celebrated this Christmas, says Reverend Joe Haward

‘You See What People Can Do to Other People, People they Lived Side-By-Side With’: Ending the Silence on Partition and Empire
23 December 2020
, As discussions of Empire and Britain’s imperial history have come to the forefront in 2020, Hardeep Matharu speaks to BBC journalist and author Kavita Puri to explore what she learnt from those who lived through the end of the colonial project in India about divisions tearing societies apart for her book ‘Partition Voices’

The Year of Living Distantly: The Comfort of Strangers
17 December 2020
, Peter Jukes explores the melancholy emptiness of city centres during the COVID-19 lockdowns and wonders whether the invisible cities of social media will ever become civilised or inhabitable

EXCLUSIVE Last In Line: The Forgotten Learning Disabled Soldiers of World War One
16 December 2020
, Saba Salman explores how a century of prejudice still finds echoes today in the treatment of people with learning disabilities during the Coronavirus pandemic

Uprising to Rising Up: The Education of Alex Wheatle
15 December 2020
, Bryan Knight speaks to Alex Wheatle, whose life was recently brought to television screens by Steve McQueen in the BBC’s Small Axe series

The Hounding of Billie Holiday
9 December 2020
, Chris Sullivan reviews the documentary ‘Billie’, detailing how one of the greatest singers of all time was hunted by officers at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics

The Upside Down: The Year of No Yule – How the Puritans Created Christmas Without Meaning To
8 December 2020
, John Mitchinson explains how increasing intolerance around festivities in the 17th Century helped promote a reactionary backlash

The Powerful Lure of the Soft Fascism Within
1 December 2020
, Hardeep Matharu with a personal account from the psychological frontline of the culture wars exploring the inner appeal of hate, division and xenophobia

The Journey to Confront My Whiteness
30 November 2020
, Hannah Charlton reflects on her personal exploration of understanding racism today and the individual and collective legacy of our Empire past

Male Suicide: Exploring a Lost Identity
27 November 2020
, Reverend Joe Haward explores the shocking rate of male suicide in the UK and its relationship to masculinity

Fighting Fascism: Art As Activism
17 November 2020
, Jan Fuscoe, of the ‘Brick Lane: The Turning Point’ project, hears from Dan Jones, an artist, activist and campaigner for over 50 years

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