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Cultural flows have proved more multi-directional than commentators could have imagined

We’re used to musicians announcing their retirement, quickly followed by their ‘comeback’ tour and album. But when Bill Withers quit in 1985 he was true to his word, performing just one final gig for a prodigious fee. So anyone under 50 is unlikely to have seen him perform and may be familiar only with a...

The US singer-songwriter John Prine died on 7 April, following complications from Covid-19. Prine had a profound influence on the American folk-country scene with a career that spanned more than 50 years, though he never reached the commercial heights of some of his peers. He weaved stories of working class life with wry songwriting, seeking...

Since the days of Derrick Comedy, Donald Glover has been hitting nothing but net. Straight out of college he was writing for and acting in award winning shows. He got bored, derived the name “Childish Gambino” from a Wu-Tang name generator, then achieved sickening success with the song Redbone, gaining four Grammys and going platinum....

What marked his artistic development was the impact of the Enlightenment revolution in ideas, particularly of freedom, equality and fraternity, that found material expression in the French Revolution.

This book represents what has largely become mainstream thinking on race, gender, sex and sexuality. Argawal argues that a large body of human behaviour, especially oppression, prejudice and discrimination, results from irrational decisions governed by our implicit or unconscious bias towards people who are different to us. She combines her experiences as a single parent...

As COVID-19 continues to inflict terrible damage, it is the privatisation of social care, and the undermining of the NHS, that is the root of the crisis now facing healthcare

It is beggars belief that Piers Morgan and The Sunday Times have been much more effective in calling out the government than the opposition

Edinburgh has tail-ended the disastrous Covid-19 policies of Westminster

The Israeli occupation seized tents in the West Bank that were being used as emergency clinics reports Yousef Asfour, Palestinian activist living in the Gaza strip

Brian Richardson pays tribute to the contribution BAME health workers made to the NHS, and the terrible price they are now paying.

We begin a monthly celebration of some of the most dynamic, fighting women from history.