
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…
Iranian women are prohibited from singing and dancing in public. Yet many are posting videos on social media dancing and singing along to singer…
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…
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…
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…
Tickets, money, passports! We all know what to check for during that last minute packing panic. But preparing for your holidays is about more…
Under Soviet rule until 1990, the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – lived in fear, hunger and censorship. Books, magazines and rock…
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…
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…
Yoav Litvin, The Rockefeller University Intellectuals, academics and artists play a unique role in society: they preserve and defend both freedom of expression and…
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…
The Church of England issued pastoral guidance from the House of Bishops to its clergy on January 23, following the legal introduction of heterosexual…
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…
There was no better place to celebrate ‘Radio 6 Dad’ culture – and 50 years of hip hop – than Gilles Peterson’s We Out…
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,…
After years of depressing images of huge fields strewn with abandoned tents and rubbish in the aftermath of music festivals, it was heartening to…