Culture

CJ Werleman wonders if the new generation of voters will have normalised the extraordinary values and actions of an unprecedented President

Melissa Chemam speaks to campaigners and creatives taking part in Black History Month in Bristol, where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was brought down in June and discussions about past and present racism continue to run deep

In a debate on the UK’s Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch highlighted the Government’s colonial arrogance by deflecting attention and throwing its ‘special’ ally under the bus

Nathan O'Hagan looks at the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on grassroots football and finds some green shoots of hope

Jan Fuscoe, of the Brick Lane Project, tells the story of Balwinder Singh Rana, an Indian activist who has been fighting racism and structural attempts at division in Britain for decades

Teacher Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson explains how students are taught to equate Britishness with whiteness

Strictly Come Dancing’s first same-sex pairing is not the milestone those praising the decision believe it to be, writes George Attwood

US talk show hosts are taking a radically different approach to Donald Trump this time around, reports Eleanor Longman-Rood

30 years after German reunification, the country’s capital is experiencing a change in its culture and character, Craig Stennett reports

The Government’s new bid to save cultural institutions is heavily concentrated in the South of England, reports Sam Bright

In the global response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Anthony Barnett sees an epoch-defining moment as governments are forced to put people’s health and wellbeing before market fundamentalism

Joe Haward explores the modern conflation of ‘freedom’ with ‘choice’ and the concept’s historic definition of human flourishing through caring for the whole community

As the classic TV puppet satire show returns, Jon Bailes thinks satire needs to get much more serious

John Mitchinson is back with another fact and fun-filled insight into the human animal and what we can learn from orcas and octopuses

Following the backlash over a ‘wokeist’ National Trust report on the links of historic buildings to colonialism and slavery, Hardeep Matharu speaks to one of its editors about how the predictable response is itself a hangover from the country’s colonial era

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and ahead of a new drama by Steve McQueen, Jan Fuscoe speaks to one of the last surviving members of the ‘Mangrove Nine’, whose trial in the 1970s was a defining moment for Black Power in Britain

Amina Shareef reviews Cuties, which has attracted criticism for its over-sexualisation of young girls, and finds a troubling portrayal of Muslim femininity

Peter Jukes with his personal tribute to Harry Evans, an advisor to Byline, who died last night at the age of 92

The Labour Party is attempting to recapture patriotism from closed-border populists – a move that should be welcomed not condemned, argues Eleanor Longman-Rood

Rev Joe Haward comes from a family with nearly three hundred years in the industry and they do not buy the Brexitoric around fishing