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Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian

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The BBC, Ofcom and now the British Museum – why do the Tories keep interfering in cultural appointments?

On Tuesday 19 March, final interviews were held for one of the biggest – and currently most exposed and controversial – jobs in British cultural...

11.04.2024 8

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The manifesto Britain needs Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule. Here are three ways Labour can fix it

The arts are one of Britain’s strongest suits. Music, theatre, museums and art, literature, the screen industry – all are fundamental to the way...

19.03.2024 60

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I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – it gives me hope

When Keir Starmer spoke at Guildhall School of Music and Drama this week, promising to place the arts at the centre of a Labour government, the fact...

15.03.2024 10

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War in Ukraine, two years in Walking statues, a child’s shoe, a ghost: only art can show you the surreal reality of wartime Ukraine

Russia’s war against Ukraine has never been only about territory and artillery, about politicians and putative peace deals. Of course, that is the...

25.02.2024 70

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The Zone of Interest invites us to face the Holocaust and ask: could we have done this?

In a letter to his former student Hannah Arendt about the Nazi war crimes trials, written in October 1946, philosopher Karl Jaspers told her that he...

03.02.2024 100

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We’ve all felt like ‘skint little people’ against the system – that’s why the Post Office drama cut through

Mr Bates v the Post Office is a wonderful piece of political drama, exquisitely acted and directed. More than anything, it is superbly written by...

18.01.2024 20

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Moments of hope Amid the grief and chaos of war, Ukraine’s young women fill my soul with hope

Hope. Before I started reporting on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in autumn last year, I’d never been to an active conflict zone. As a...

26.12.2023 20

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I love the British Museum, but what I’ve learned about the depth of its crisis fills me with dread

There are six floors in the British Museum, three above ground and three below. In terms of the crisis that has exploded into public view since the...

21.12.2023 70

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Starmer's path to power Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts

As the Conservatives clutch at political straws, the Labour party is readying itself for government. Some predict a general election as early as next...

26.11.2023 4

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How do you memorialise the horrors of war? In Ukraine, it happens quickly, and with love

In Shevchenko City Garden, in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, there is a new memorial to the children killed by invading Russians. Officially unveiled this...

06.11.2023 10

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Love, grieving, intimacy and enduring war: what is the role now for books and writers in Ukraine?

Last year’s Lviv BookForum, a literary festival in the elegant western Ukrainian city, was mostly an online affair, held in a basement lecture...

21.10.2023 10

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