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Owen Jones

This summer Tate Liverpool plays host to a major exhibition of René Magritte, with over 100 paintings, some from private collections and many never seen before in Britain.

In his 1961 science fiction classic Solaris, the Russian author Stanislaw Lem wrote, “We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors.” This fascinating exhibition at the British Library shows us how science – or speculative – fiction has imagined other worlds, terrifying creatures and utopian futures while simultaneously exploring political and social questions...

Nicholas Garland writes in the exhibition catalogue that accompanies this exhibition that "Steve Bell is the greatest political cartoonist of the day". I would also suggest that he is perhaps one of the most important artists of his generation.

Cell 211 is a prison riot film. Mild-mannered and taciturn prison guard Juan is being given an induction tour of his new workplace – a notorious Madrid prison. In bizarre and briefly farcical circumstances he finds himself marooned in a cell just as a riot breaks out. Juan’s reaction is to pretend to be a...

A few months ago Westminster council passed a bylaw that made it illegal to hand out free food, in an effort to shut down soup kitchens for the homeless – who were apparently an embarrassment for the Tory-controlled borough. It is now illegal to be homeless and hungry in Westminster. Treacle Jr opens with a...

Artist, suffragette, revolutionary, editor and anti-colonialist, Sylvia Pankhurst was a truly exceptional woman whose life has long been overshadowed by her more famous suffragette sister Christabel and her mother Emmeline. Worldwrite, an education charity based in London, have produced a truly exceptional documentary about Sylvia’s life. They have succeeded in bringing together archive material about...

Jonathan Neale

Alison Irvine

Michael Lavalette (ed)

Hassan Mahamdallie (ed)

John Lang and Graham Dodkins