Cosy games' have grown in popularity in recent years but can they be more than mere escapism? Dr Stephanie Farnsworth ...

Pan-Africanism is back. This year, the Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta marked the opening of its 2024 spring-summer menswear show with the publication of Air Afrique, a magazine named after the ...

In April 2025, in the aftermath of the UK Supreme Court’s devastating trans-exclusionary ruling on the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act 2010, I met with a group of friends and ...

From Back to the Future, Far and Away, Ned Kelly, and beyond, the Irish diaspora on the Anglo-colonial frontier has long benefitted from the plucky underdog treatment in Hollywood. And, until Sinners ...

The past few years have seen increasing discussion of the ‘manosphere’ in the media, in government circles, and among the general public. Conceived by the men’s rights movement of the 1970s, nurtured ...

In the ever-shifting landscape and viability of print media, left-wing publications can take many forms and directions. Paula Lacey spotlights a selection of trajectories taken in the UK and beyond ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

In summer 2022, I wrote here about Russia’s co-option of cultural institutions in Ukraine. That ongoing war effort seeks in part to re-write ‘official’ histories through seizure of artefacts and ...

Five hundred years ago, one of the greatest social movements in European history swept the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Germany. In thousands of villages, people’s private mumblings at heavy ...

May 2026’s Senedd election confirmed a major shift in Welsh politics. Reform UK, which secured just 1–2 per cent of the vote at the previous election, emerged as a significant electoral force in Wales ...

In recent years, the language used by estate agents to describe various London neighbourhoods has become increasingly meaningless and, in some cases, absurd. Here, I’m thinking partly of my mum, who ...