For the past 20 years or more people have increasingly been exploring the British landscape on foot and by bike. Ken Worpole is one of them and here he reflects on the rewards for modern society in a renewed acquaintance with the natural world
Labour MPs should not defend a racist liar because he is a colleague.
The Guardian once referred to the Shanghai Bienniale as the Chinese government’s effort to “co-opt contemporary art to advertise the productivity and tolerance of a new China.” As the art world co-opts another Chinese dissident perhaps we should ask what is being advertised in return?
To mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we have a true story from its early days. It is about a young man's rites of passage, but also an era of deception, self-deception and co-option, when those who made the journey to the other side could be turned by the Cold War into weapons.
Face-covering prohibitions in Europe are typically passed on the basis of three arguments: security, women’s rights and secularism. Rational as they may seem, these arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.
There is an emotional logic as well as a business case for openness and diversity in migration policy. Nazek Ramadan reports from a conference that inspired and encouraged her
A Scotsman explains that his middle-America, Tea-Party supporting relatives are good folk and its the British who have a problem if they can't see this
The Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridger has published an important online overview of the ‘Fourth Estate’, and invited this response from Anthony Barnett, whose latest thoughts on the press, public service broadcasting and the BBC, the future of the web, Rupert Murdoch and democracy, argue
There are many different social codes governing what women can and can’t do in Gaza, where new fact finding missions are beginning to take an interest in their lives
Cas Mudde was quite right to point out recently how liberal arguments are being used in the interests of illiberal attacks on Muslims. However, in the Dutch case this reflects anything but a progressive national consensus
A new report shows that British media horizons are shrinking
