In Iran and beyond, arrests of singers and dancers show how music can be a powerful tool of resistance
Iranian women are prohibited from singing and dancing in public. Yet many are posting videos on social media dancing and singing along to singer…
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Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
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How to assess political stability? Follow the bread path
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Your choice of holiday destination is a political act
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The surprising role cheese played in human evolution
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Work less to save the planet? How to make sure a four-day week actually cuts emissions
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The artist’s dilemma: what constitutes selling out?
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Democracy in the Animal Kingdom. Read how animals vote to make group decisions
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Using the Bible against LGBTQ+ people is an abuse of scripture
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Psychedelics: how they act on the brain to relieve depression
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How To Have Sex: landmark film wants to change how we talk about consent
Written and directed by Molly Manning Walker, How to Have Sex is a powerful rites-of-passage drama that follows the tale of three 16-year-old girls…
Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
There’s something about the title tribal chief that evokes images of grey beards, charismatic eyes, and charming smiles. I’d been expecting Gandalf. But this…
How to assess political stability? Follow the bread path
When Egyptians were protesting in 2011, they held up a piece of bread and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Since the 2007-8 and…
Your choice of holiday destination is a political act
Tickets, money, passports! We all know what to check for during that last minute packing panic. But preparing for your holidays is about more…
Art from Under the Iron Thumb
Under Soviet rule until 1990, the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – lived in fear, hunger and censorship. Books, magazines and rock…
The surprising role cheese played in human evolution
A solid white mass found in a broken jar in an Ancient Egyptian tomb has turned out to be the world’s oldest example of…
Work less to save the planet? How to make sure a four-day week actually cuts emissions
The idea of a four-day working week is gaining traction. Recently, several high-profile companies have trialled reduced hours. And in the UK, the Labour Party has…
The artist’s dilemma: what constitutes selling out?
Yoav Litvin, The Rockefeller University Intellectuals, academics and artists play a unique role in society: they preserve and defend both freedom of expression and…
Democracy in the Animal Kingdom. Read how animals vote to make group decisions
Today we opt for ballot boxes, but humans have used numerous ways of voting to have their say throughout history. However, we’re not the…
Using the Bible against LGBTQ+ people is an abuse of scripture
The Church of England issued pastoral guidance from the House of Bishops to its clergy on January 23, following the legal introduction of heterosexual…
Psychedelics: how they act on the brain to relieve depression
Up to 30% of people with depression don’t respond to treatment with antidepressants. This may be down to differences in biology between patients and…
We Out Here review: respect for music and culture at its core
There was no better place to celebrate ‘Radio 6 Dad’ culture – and 50 years of hip hop – than Gilles Peterson’s We Out…
How inequality shapes your experience of a heatwave
When the mercury rises, does your anxiety rise with it? If so, you are not alone. According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics,…
The environmental cost of abandoning your tent at a music festival
After years of depressing images of huge fields strewn with abandoned tents and rubbish in the aftermath of music festivals, it was heartening to…
