Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It

Juliet Jacques

30 years ago, the BBC invited Palestinian thinker Edward Said to deliver six lectures on the public intellectual, writes Juliet Jacques. Can you imagine something so outlandish happening today?

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Opinion: If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?

Juliet Jacques

Lobby groups have targeted 54% of culture workers' organisations. Is it any wonder, asks Juliet Jacques, that even the most famous artists are being silenced on Palestine?

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Opinion: Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Comment journalism once seemed a genuinely dynamic, democratic form. Now it’s mostly overpaid Times columnists sugarcoating fascism and Guardian grandees putting themselves on the wrong side of history, writes Juliet Jacques.

Feature: The Fifa Museum Is a Masterclass in Reputational Whitewashing

Juliet Jacques

Handing world cups to fascist dictatorships, brown-nosing Trump, endless corruption scandals – there’s an awful lot of history on display at Fifa’s Zurich museum and absolutely none of it that explains why fans hate the organisation, writes Juliet Jacques.

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Interview: The Britain You Know Was Created by European Immigrants

Juliet Jacques

From Penguin Press to the Royal Festival Hall, British modernism was co-created by artists and intellectuals fleeing fascism in the 1930s. Juliet Jacques speaks to Owen Hatherley, author of a new collective biography of some of the movement's most important figures.

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Interview: Columbia University ‘Stupidity’ on Gaza Encampments Radicalised Students Worldwide

Juliet Jacques

The Encampments co-director speaks to Juliet Jacques about unexpected audience responses to his film, the importance of media literacy and the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.

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Long Read: How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights

Juliet Jacques

From the Guardian to Westminster, why do the British media and political class consistently unite to manufacture consent for laws that make the lives of the working class, migrants and minorities worse?

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Opinion: Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action

Juliet Jacques

Labour had a massive opportunity to counter the media onslaught and brighten the public mood, writes Juliet Jacques - and they’ve squandered it.

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Review: Blitz Is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film to Date – and That’s No Bad Thing

Juliet Jacques

The former Turner Prize-winning artist’s latest work is racial history masquerading as a chocolate-box depiction of the second world war, writes Juliet Jacques.

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

The director's new film 2073 gestures at social ills but struggles to name culprits, let alone solutions. The result is to induce despair rather than prompt action, writes Juliet Jacques.

Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats

Juliet Jacques

The satirical museum has met an end too good to be scripted. Juliet Jacques meets its co-founder, the artist Darren Cullen.

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Feature: The Fourth Plinth Is About to Become a Trans Monument

Juliet Jacques

Mexican artist Teresa Margolles will fill Trafalgar Square with the faces of 850 trans people in a visual protest against transfemicide. Juliet Jacques reports.

Feature: London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach

Juliet Jacques

Sprawling across five floors of a former language school, the gorgeous Palestine House is poised to make history. Juliet Jacques reports.

Pro Revolution Soccer: The Misfit Visionaries Who Invented Modern Football

Throughout English footballing history, some coaches have transformed the game. Is Gareth Southgate among them? In this season finale, the squad asks what's next for this sport of oligarch and oddballs.

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Opinion: The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Juliet Jacques

Amid a crowded field of strenuously unambitious manifesto pledges, Keir Starmer’s culture offering is spectacularly pathetic, writes Juliet Jacques.

Feature: Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists

Juliet Jacques

Only 8% of film and TV professionals come from the working class, according to new stats. One of London’s most deprived boroughs wants to change that by paying artists to work in its studios, writes Juliet Jacques.

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Feature: Post-Soviet Countries Don’t Know What to Do With Their Monuments

Juliet Jacques

In December, Sofia decided to partially dismantle its monument to the Red Army, rekindling decades-old debates about where these pieces of Soviet history belong, writes Juliet Jacques.

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Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Juliet Jacques

Jonathan Glazer’s latest film follows a Nazi family living in Auschwitz’s backyard. It couldn’t be timelier, writes Juliet Jacques.

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Opinion: Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Interview: The Britain You Know Was Created by European Immigrants

Juliet Jacques

Interview: Columbia University ‘Stupidity’ on Gaza Encampments Radicalised Students Worldwide

Juliet Jacques

Long Read: How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action

Juliet Jacques

Review: Blitz Is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film to Date – and That’s No Bad Thing

Juliet Jacques

Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats

Juliet Jacques

Feature: London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach

Juliet Jacques

Pro Revolution Soccer: The Misfit Visionaries Who Invented Modern Football

Opinion: The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Juliet Jacques

Feature: Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists

Juliet Jacques

Feature: Post-Soviet Countries Don’t Know What to Do With Their Monuments

Juliet Jacques

Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Juliet Jacques

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Opinion: Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: If Even Sally Rooney Can’t Speak Freely About Palestine, What Hope Do Ordinary Culture Workers Have?

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Feature: The Fifa Museum Is a Masterclass in Reputational Whitewashing

Juliet Jacques

Interview: The Britain You Know Was Created by European Immigrants

Juliet Jacques

Interview: Columbia University ‘Stupidity’ on Gaza Encampments Radicalised Students Worldwide

Juliet Jacques

Long Read: How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights

Juliet Jacques

Opinion: Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action

Juliet Jacques

Review: Blitz Is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film to Date – and That’s No Bad Thing

Juliet Jacques

Review: Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats

Juliet Jacques

Feature: The Fourth Plinth Is About to Become a Trans Monument

Juliet Jacques

Feature: London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach

Juliet Jacques

Pro Revolution Soccer: The Misfit Visionaries Who Invented Modern Football

Opinion: The Arts Will Die Under Grey Labour

Juliet Jacques

Feature: Against All Odds, Brent Council Is Investing in Its Artists

Juliet Jacques

Feature: Post-Soviet Countries Don’t Know What to Do With Their Monuments

Juliet Jacques

Review: The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Juliet Jacques

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