If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...

The moment they step on court most of them become nervous wrecks. They lie about line calls and bicker over the score; if ...

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British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...

Unflinching (and unthinking?) support for Israel is a trojan horse through which censorship and authoritarianism sneak into ...

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L uis Buñuel worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York between 1939 and 1941. His job was to select documentary films to be sent to Latin America, but he also, more notoriously, edited Leni ...

At the grubby end of an afternoon earlier this year I stood with my back to the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, watching the traffic on the M8. Here the motorway cuts through the centre of the city after ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two hundred artists living and working in the ‘largest artist-led occupation in ...

Crufts is the biggest dog show in the world with more than 24,000 toy, terrier, pastoral, hound, gundog, utility and working ...