Soaps Give Working Class Actors a Chance – And They’re Disappearing
Polly Smythe
It's Benedict Cumberbatch or bust.
Tag: culture
Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists
Juliet Jacques
Stranger than fiction.
Young Jews Are Sick of Being Lied to About Israel
Rivkah Brown
False idols are out.
The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep
Juliet Jacques
Hear no evil, see no evil.
Microdose: Aliens on Screen
From Martian invaders to Mulder and Scully, our obsession with aliens says plenty about politics on Earth.
The Nasty Noughties
Owen Hatherley, Ash Sarkar and Juliet Jacques remember the decade that decency forgot.
Argentina Wants to Whitewash Its Military Junta. Unfortunately, There’s Video Evidence
Juliet Jacques
The ‘disappeared’ reappear.
Why Posh People Have Bad Taste
Taste may be subjective, but there’s no accounting for it. Critic Nathalie Olah on normcore, hoodies and the Kardashian mansion.
Palestinian Satirical Cinema Has the Last Laugh
Juliet Jacques
‘He wants to get laid in Jerusalem! But it’s Ramadan! No fucking!’
Aged 82, Patricio Guzmán Is Still Making Revolutionary Cinema
Juliet Jacques
‘You must be ready at the place where the first flame will appear.’
Crossing the Class Divide
What happened to social mobility? Lynsey Hanley tells Juliet Jacques about becoming middle class.
Trip 36: Festivals
Jem, Nadia and Keir argue over the political meaning of festivals, from Stonehenge to Castlemorton.
Private Companies Are Stealing Public Parks
Rivkah Brown
‘This is the new enclosures.’
Why Is Tristram Hunt Afraid of Trans Books?
Vic Parsons
It’s giving Section 28.
Barbican Forced to Apologise for Silencing Palestinians
Rivkah Brown
‘A serious error of judgement.’
This Man Predicted the Future. Aaron Bastani Meets Peter Turchin
History is not just one thing after another. Historians spend lifetimes figuring out how X event in medieval France impacted Y event in 20th century Polynesia – but none of these historians have truly ‘done the math’ like this week’s guest. Coming from a background in applied mathematics, Peter Turchin has gathered an unprecedented amount […]
The Culture War Doesn’t Exist
Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Call it what it is: class war.
Trip 32: Myth
Keir, Nadia and Jeremy consider the stories we just can’t shake, from Oedipus to Brexit.