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The Upside Down: Why the Tuskegee Experiment Still Resonates

, 17 February 2023
John Mitchinson explores the lasting impact of a controversial American study steeped in the institutional racism which continues to permeate the country today

The Upside Down: Why Folk Songs Still Mean Something

, 13 January 2023
The longer we look at this traditional music, the more we see that its very malleability is its strength and its challenge, writes John Mitchinson

The White Knuckle Ride of 2022

, 23 December 2022
From Partygate to Trussomics, the death of the Monarch, and the humiliation of Vladimir Putin, OttoEnglish's review of the year takes us on a roller coaster of major fails and meteoric falls

In Neo-Dickensian Britain Politicians Should Heed the Ghost of Marley

, 22 December 2022
There's a reason Dickens' Christmas Carol is a perennial festive favourite, says A V Deggar – the Malthusian ideas of Scrooge are still with us

‘Who’s Virginia Woolf Afraid Of?’

, 22 December 2022
Stephen Unwin explores how the famed author's views about disability were typical of a growing intellectual endorsement of the dangerous ideology of eugenics in the early 20th century

Irony: The Velvet Glove of Colonialism?

, 8 December 2022
Did the Greeks invent irony? Rahila Gupta makes the case for Britain's mastery and ownership of the device

The Identity Trap: No One Narrative Can Encompass the Different Dimensions of Diversity

, 18 November 2022
As Britain welcomes its first Asian Prime Minister, Hardeep Matharu explores how our pluralistic society is reflected in the multiplicity of its migrant experience – as demonstrated by the different reactions to Rishi Sunak’s rise 

British Identity: The Empire’s Spectacle

, 22 September 2022
The mourning of the Queen’s death has been, largely unconsciously, a nation in a state of 'appearing', writes Joe Haward

Putin’s Real War and His War of Words

, 16 September 2022
Sian Norris considers Martha Gellhorn's classic 1966 examination of propaganda, Real War And War Of Words, and updates it for Putin's invasion of Ukraine

‘Out of the Picture: After the Queen’s Death, Will Britain Finally Confront Itself?’

, 15 September 2022
Britain has hidden a key part of our story from ourselves. With the Queen’s death marking a decisive shift, it’s time for us all to start building a better picture of our country and its past, writes Hardeep Matharu

‘Queen Elizabeth II: Symbolically Potent, Politically Powerless’

, 9 September 2022
Anthony Barnett reflects on the passing of the ‘New Elizabethan Age’ and how sovereignty and monarchy have moved apart

The Identity Trap: Race, Representation and the Rise of Conservative Diversity

, 11 August 2022
Rishi Sunak is in the running to be Britain’s first prime minister of colour – but the debate around whether this will be a good thing for ethnic minorities has laid bare conflicting ideas about the 'individual' and the 'collective', writes Hardeep Matharu

The Upside Down: Breaking the Frame of History

, 9 August 2022
John Mitchinson lifts the lid on why the Luddites weren’t really ‘Luddite’

The Upside Down: Themself Alone

, 12 July 2022
John Mitchinson explores a surprisingly modern role model from the backstreets of Jacobean London

‘Mr Jones’ Review: A Timely If Flawed Watch on the Ukrainian Holodomor

, 17 June 2022
As another Russian dictator uses Ukrainian grain as a weapon of war, this 2020 historical thriller is worth a watch, writes Ellin Stein

The Upside Down: Let Them Eat Nothing

, 18 March 2022

‘Life Unworthy of Life’: The Lessons of T4

, 28 December 2021

Hope Soars Eternal: The Nebra Sky Disk

, 10 December 2021

The Upside Down: The Appeal of Hibernation

, 12 November 2021

Colonial Amnesia: The Forgotten Victims of Transportation

, 11 November 2021

A War Christmas: What Exactly Are We Remembering?

, 11 November 2021

At the Crossroads of Freedom

, 29 October 2021

Reconsidering the Counterculture

, 7 September 2021

Fake History: The New Brexiter Great Crusade

, 7 September 2021

The Long 1980s

, 6 August 2021
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