It is not only about sex and religion. It is also about power and class. The Church of England is in chaos: just weeks after Justin Welby... Continue reading
Margaret Heffernan outlines the precarious situation facing artists Artists are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Boheme and all that) or jammy millionaires... Continue reading
Mark Perryman provides his annual seasonal reading guide OK twelve books in twelve days, in between welcoming Santa down the chimney, preparing the nut roast for Christmas... Continue reading
Michael Rosen reading his poems On Sunday 9th December at the Cockpit Theatre in London, I attended the celebration and farewell of twenty years publishing by Smokestack... Continue reading
Jamaican cop confronts Scotland Yard in Get Millie Black Part 2 Honourable Mention Operation Sabre—A tight, taut Serbian series which recounts how a Prime Minister falls victim... Continue reading
Big Tech Regulator Lina Khan, out with the good air, in with the bad The year in the media, both in the streaming business and in broadcasting... Continue reading
Mr. Bates and the Post Office Part 1 It has been a strange television season. The general trend continues from last year – trimming and cutting back... Continue reading
Around 60 people gathered last Saturday in Barnsley for the Communist Party’s first-ever conference on culture. Called ‘Class and Culture’, the conference was held in the inspiring... Continue reading
More than 1,000 authors have launched a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and Culture Matters supports the boycott. These writers... Continue reading
Soil and Soulwas first published in 2001, and it was a thoroughly well-received book. In his Foreword to it, George Monbiot described it as ‘a ground-breaking book.’ ... Continue reading