Erin van der Maas outlines the role civil society needs to play to ensure public service media

The changing shape of China’s cultural calendar raises sensitive questions of politics, class and ethnicity that its...

Petros Iosifidis outlines the looming challenges to national public service broadcasters in Europe

Identity has emerged as one of the most pressing questions of our time. Travis Jeppesen looks at how the Berlin...

A group of anthropologists describe their participant observations on YouTube

After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan...

The return of psychotherapy to Russia after Stalin’s ban has had to overcome many obstacles, including Russian...

Lebanese protestors demand secularism. Thai PM rejects protestors’ offer as counter-movements gain strength. Clashes...

Adam Singer asks whether institutional preservation is stifling innovation

An archive article published in Art Monthly in November 1986)

This is a review article published in the Time Literary Supplement of 5-11 August 1988

History teaching has fallen victim to politics in Russia. Educational standards are falling and children are not...

If you wanted to raise the issue of water privatisation and its effect on the human right to water, you might turn...

Ron Jones responds to criticism of the Welsh broadcaster S4C with an analysis of its prospects

The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski’s latest movie is a well-crafted and well-acted thriller adapted from a book by...

The Liberal Democrat leader wrote this article for the Guardian in 2002. It is now being used against him by a...

Sunder Katwala calls for the BBC to broadcast the second general election debate

A front line account of the experience of being tested rather than taught under Blair. A recent UK school-leaver...