Culture

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