Are the Bridget Jones books too superficial? For Sarah Creagh, Bridget’s obsessions reflect real pressures—and there’s nothing wrong with escapism
If you look for pictures of workers in the Tate gallery, you’ll probably be shown LS Lowry’s dismal stickmen. Depictions of women are more common—but often nude and sexualised.
Handbagged by Moira Buffini | The Great War by Joe Sacco | The Fifth Estate
Nothing but a man | Iain Duncan Smith’s realistic unemployment simulator
Teen third world war drama How I Live Now is well worth watching for a point of view that most films forget, says school student Bethan Turner
A rare chance to see 50 works by Dadaist George Grosz
A Royal Academy exhibition is a rare opportunity to see leading Australian artists, but it wastes the chance to explore Aboriginal art, says John Baker
The Pride contrasts the lives of middle class gay men in 1958 to today.
When Edinburgh detective Bruce Robertson is chosen to help solve a brutal murder, he has other things on his mind.
This gig aims to raise awareness and funds for ex-miners and others campaigning against the cover-up of police violence against pickets at Orgreave in 1984. The line up includes Thee Faction, Quiet Loner and local socialist band The Hurriers.
This alternative history tells the story of resistance fighters in Nazi-ruled Britain against a puppet regime led by Lord Beaverbrook, Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell.
