In the decade 2008–18, between the phone hacking scandal and the cancellation of part two of the Leveson Inquiry, the editorial position of The Guardian on pre...
The Political Quarterly 2020 Annual Lecture by Amelia Gentleman
If you missed our 2020 virtual Annual Lecture, you can watch it here:
https://www.youtub...
When Donald Trump was elected President of the USA in 2016, a book from 1935 became an unlikely bestseller in the States. Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here...
We need a reformed and bigger BBC putting
information engineering in the public interest at the centre of a new vision
for the UK. We are in the middle of an i...
Anya Pearson interviews Petina Gappah, Zimbabwean novelist and lawyer, whose first book An Elegy for Easterly was shortlisted for the 2010 Orwell book pri...
Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy, who won the Special Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2010 for the documentaries she ha...
Back in 2007, four intellectuals, the figureheads
of New Atheism, met for drinks and an informal discussion of their views. Each
individual had taken it upon t...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
When did you last pick up a copy of your local paper? Not
recently? You’re not the only one. Britain’s local press looks to be on its
last legs. Since 2005, al...
In his classic study of racism and psychiatry, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon made a number of startling and powerful observations. While many of these h...
Wearing poppies has become far more controversial than in any period since this British initiative of remembrance began in 1921. For example, white poppies, fir...
In spite of its important geopolitical position, Yemen has remained one of the least studied countries of the Middle East, so Lackner's contribution to its sc...
