Culture

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

Nathan O'Hagan tries to offer an explanation for why celebrities are more susceptible than most to wild misinformation

Former Labour MP John Denham explains how the repressed impulses of English nationalism represent themselves in Boris, Borishness and Britishness

Chris Sullivan looks at the consequences for Notting Hill of the determination of successive Conservative Governments to deregulate rents and planning

John Mitchinson reflects on what may be the finest moment in print journalism – the use of the press as a channel of truth and justice

Gloria Steinem’s criticisms of the hit show about the 1970s US women’s liberation movement miss the prescience the series shows about how a path to the White House was paved for Donald Trump, writes Ellin Stein

Chis Sullivan examines the history of Notting Hill Carnival and its decades-long battle against the Establishment

As part of Byline Times’ series dedicating to giving a platform to new voices of colour, Neha Maqsood shares her experience of being in lockdown with her Mum and Dad during the Coronavirus crisis in Pakistan