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Charlotte HigginsThe Guardian |
On Tuesday 19 March, final interviews were held for one of the biggest – and currently most exposed and controversial – jobs in British cultural...
The arts are one of Britain’s strongest suits. Music, theatre, museums and art, literature, the screen industry – all are fundamental to the way...
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...
Russia’s war against Ukraine has never been only about territory and artillery, about politicians and putative peace deals. Of course, that is the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As the Conservatives clutch at political straws, the Labour party is readying itself for government. Some predict a general election as early as next...
In Shevchenko City Garden, in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, there is a new memorial to the children killed by invading Russians. Officially unveiled this...
Last year’s Lviv BookForum, a literary festival in the elegant western Ukrainian city, was mostly an online affair, held in a basement lecture...