The line-up for 16 November 2025 is: Peter Marinker – Peter Marinker is a London-based actor well known forhis work on BBC Radio, his many audio book... Continue reading
In our ongoing Our Culture Series, we examine how art and media reflect, and too often distort, the realities of working-class life in Britain. In this essay,... Continue reading
Photo credit: Marco Anelli By Jack Clarke Factory International looks like it was dropped from the sky by some intergalactic logistics company. A monument to the future... Continue reading
An audience at Basma Theatre, now in Gaza By Hossam Almadhoun Culture is not a luxury but a form of resistance. – Edward Said I was not... Continue reading
By James O’Brien Take my hand then Hiba,To the Fields of Athenry,We’ll go then to the blackthorn,The hawthorn copse,Lay awhile, try and breathe,Try to survey heaven or... Continue reading
Image: Sandor Csudai The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems and short prose focusing on the escalating tragedy of refugee deaths in the English... Continue reading
By Ella B. Winters Dear neighbour,You whitewashed the streetand smeared it with a bloodycross. Your celebration buntingturned a noose, squeezingthe breathout of me.I am not scared to... Continue reading
Image by Tim Pierce By Jim Aitken They come from across Africaand from the Middle Eastand from further East,masses on the move from landsonce colonised or still... Continue reading
England flags, Bermondsey. Commons image. By Pauline Sewards Here they come: the haters swarming up lamppostswearing big boy balaclavas and black hoodiesbouncing on the balls of their... Continue reading