While the English language is gifted with many great poets, William Blake was alone in writing so simply, and so powerfully, and so unforgettably. Now a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum is celebrating his visual and literary work in tandem.
Mutual recognition between people and cultures moves in mysterious ways, the cartoon its Rorschach test.
In fact, the removal of the ‘duty to promote community cohesion’ in schools from the UK's Ofsted inspection regime sent a very clear signal.
Perhaps paradoxically, Greece’s real problem is primarily political, not economic, and its name is “populism.”
Why should Australia acknowledge its bloody past on Australia Day? Firstly, this is a fundamental question of dignity.
Perhaps it is not the Muslim communities of France that must change, so much as the notion of laïcité.
A role not mentioned so far in the obituaries. In memoriam.
This week, 200 years after Britain abolished slavery, the UK’s domestic labour laws have been unfavourably compared to a country in the top ten for human rights abuse
Instead of distancing ourselves from terrorist crimes, as progressive Muslims we should confront the ultra conservative, violent Wahhabi/salafi version of Islam that is practised by both professional terrorists and despotic nations like Saudi Arabia.
A journalist's salute to a man who was more than a writer. In memoriam.
