The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst
Adam Ramsay
Who cleared those heather moors?
Tag: culture
96: Why Are Women Choosing Looks Instead of Books?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Ash and Moya start the year with a tough conversation about the beauty regime that rules over us all.
Novara Media’s Best Books of 2025
Aaron Bastani, Rivkah Brown & Steven Methven
Aaron, Rivkah and Steven share their picks of the year.
Some Tate Workers’ Salaries Are Less Than Their Directors’ Bonuses
Juliet Jacques
'Nobody can live on the wages Tate pays.'
Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists Has Been a Runaway Success. Why Is the Government so Nervous About Expanding It?
Ellen McVeigh
It’s boosted the Irish economy by £88m.
How Sci-Fi Visions of the Future Became Dystopian and Paranoid
Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn
And other big questions about science fiction, from Mary Shelley to Kim Stanley Robinson.
The Royal Opera House Cancelled One Israeli Show. Staff Demand It Axe Them All
Polly Smythe
Not enough.
Does the Left Need New Heroes?
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn
The ACFM crew ask whether the idea of the hero is a right-wing fantasy.
No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice
Juliet Jacques
All mouth, no trousers.
Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action
Juliet Jacques
Where the hell is Lisa Nandy?
Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024
Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar
Aaron and Ash share their picks of the year.
This ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ Boyband Is Whitewashing Apartheid
Ed Gillett
Hunky hasbara.
Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say
Juliet Jacques
Where’s the class analysis?
Trip 46: Death
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew face the inevitable.
Massive Attack Founder on Palestine, Riots and the Greenest Music Festival Ever
Moya Lothian-McLean talks to Robert Del Naja ahead of the Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator, a day festival which promises to be the greenest live music event of it’s size ever staged.
London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach
Juliet Jacques
A home in exile.
The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour
Juliet Jacques
Keir Starmer just doesn’t care.
Microdose: Notes on Camp
Has camp changed culture forever? The gang revisit Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay for an aesthetic Microdose.