Is Guernica (1937) the most famous piece of political protest art ever made? Probably. Depicting the wailing, the dead, the gorged and dismembered, Picasso’s Cubist mural is so ingrained in our ...

In these agonising moments when, as Michelle Obama put it last summer, “we all have that deep pit in [our] stomach[s], a palpable sense of dread about the future”, there is one question that haunts me ...

Unless the US polls have messed up for the third consecutive presidential election—and later in this blog we shall discuss why they might have done—three lessons can be learned from the battle between ...

“In America, if you say something like, ‘I’m trying to build a global movement of ambitious idealists’, then the response is, ‘Yeah, of course,’” says Rutger Bregman. The historian and writer of ...

Temporary accommodation is the sharp end of England’s housing crisis. Official data shows that there are now more than 117,000 households in this unenviable situation— an increase of 23 per cent in ...

American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...

Changing self-imposed, artificial borrowing rules, as Rachel Reeves did this week in the first Labour Budget in 14 years, cannot alter the fundamentals of the funding difficulties facing the country.

Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

In order to manage my expectations early, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad—better known collectively as the White Pube—make it crystal clear to me: they do not like Tracey Emin. We’ve barely ...

The older I’ve become the more I’ve understood the French feminist Monique Wittig’s argument that lesbians are not women but another gender (a “third” sex or gender as it is sometimes called) because ...

It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...