Culture

Hardeep Matharu with a personal account from the psychological frontline of the culture wars exploring the inner appeal of hate, division and xenophobia

Hannah Charlton reflects on her personal exploration of understanding racism today and the individual and collective legacy of our Empire past

Reverend Joe Haward explores the shocking rate of male suicide in the UK and its relationship to masculinity

Jan Fuscoe, of the ‘Brick Lane: The Turning Point’ project, hears from Dan Jones, an artist, activist and campaigner for over 50 years

Composer Howard Goodall sets out what performers will need to know in a post-Brexit world and reflects on the sorrow of the Government’s desire to erect barriers, when the job of creatives is to tear them down

This Netflix depiction of mass protests repressed by brutal state violence has stark parallels to today, says Ellin Stein

Otto English has received an exclusive leak from Boris Johnson’s top advisor on his farewell to No 10 and his smashing thoughts on smashing elites

Caolan Robertson explains how, though Donald Trump lost last week's presidential race, his brand of nativist populism is still spreading, particularly in the UK

Chris Sullivan remembers the run-down, experimental and sleazy New York of punk, hip hop and disco – the creative epicentre of the world, suffocated in recent years by big developers, greed and rent hikes. But could COVID-19 signal a return to its innovative and more humanistic edge?

John Mitchinson considers how the author combines the integrity of an investigative journalist with a rhetorical urgency in a timely exploration of whiteness

Reverend Joe Haward considers how a dedication to rooting out corruption and accepting the realities of the present can provide an engine for change

Francesca Borri visits the Hyde Park neighbourhood in Leeds, and finds a community abandoned by government; ravaged by deprivation

The plight of British Bangladeshis is an unpopular one, explains Shafi Musaddique, yet the community continues to wrestle with unique inequalities

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