The continuing validity of community development
In preparation for a visit to meet Northern Heartlands in County Durham, I’ve been reading about their community projects and artists’ residencies,
Category: For itself
My European home
What a sad day. Not just for me, but for millions of people across this complicated continent – British people who
Talking Until Nightfall
On this day, 75 years ago, Soviet forces reached the Nazi incarceration and extermination complex at Auschwitz. What they found
Happy new year
Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée à refaire le monde. La mienne sait pourtant qu’elle ne le refera pas.
Monologues above a million solitudes
The 2019 Parliamentary Election will surely be a turning point in the UK’s history, but how much has the country
'Tenderness is the most modest form of love'
Yesterday, Olga Tokarczuk gave her Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy, which awarded her the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Don’t listen: look
People gathered at the John Pat Peace Place fire, Songs for Peace 2019. Photo: Marg Bertling (Big hART) It’s been
Up to us
Last night, I got an email from a friend asking me to support a campaign to change politics in Britain.
The fanatic within
At a time when the lamps are once again going out, not only in Europe but across the world, I’ve
The resonance of history
About 40 years ago, I found a small treasure in a secondhand bookshop—an old copy of Clarendon’s History of the
