Britain
The home of UK counterculture is facing closure
Save The Horse Hospital — One of London’s longest-running independent arts venues has been hit with a 440 per cent rent increase, and will be forced to closed at the end of March.
Written by: Guy Sangster-Adams
Inside Manchester’s new wave of radical club nights
Vision over profit — From funeral reenactments to mariachi bands: events like The White Hotel and Fat Out want to introduce more challenging, political and philosophical ways of partying.
Written by: Luke Charnley
Look out: facial recognition has finally come to London
What you need to know — This week, the Metropolitan police began its first live deployment of the controversial technology in the capital. We headed to Stratford to see the rollout.
Written by: Peter Yeung
Inside London’s new Museum of Neoliberalism
A history of greed — The Lewisham venue examines the way the world – and specifically the UK – has changed since Thatcher and Reagan came into power.
Written by: Tom Usher
Is this what freedom looks like?
Welcome to Brexit Britain — At 11pm on Friday night, Britain left the European Union – and thousands headed to Parliament Square to celebrate. Photographer Theo McInnes was there to capture the crowds.
Written by: Huck
The changing face of British culture, in photos
The people’s city — The British Culture Archive uses photography to ‘document, highlight and preserve’ the transformations of UK society.
Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray
Angry white men have declared war on the planet (again)
The Fightback: Climate — The culture war is no longer a trivial sideshow to the fight against material inequality, writes Ash Sarkar. If we lose, we lose on the climate too.
Written by: Ash Sarkar
Bruce Davidson’s portrait of post-war Britain
A united kingdom — Travelling across the UK in 1960, the photographer captured a country driven by difference, struggling with post-war trauma and economic hardship.
Written by: Eva Clifford
Jess Phillips: woman of the people, or just out for herself?
A quest for truth — The Labour leadership candidate markets herself as a bold and refreshing outsider, when in fact she embodies the status quo.
Written by: Dawn Foster
How to survive Boris, from the people that survived Thatcher
‘Don’t stop fighting’ — Now the dust has settled on last month’s election result, writer Emily Reynolds talks to activists from the ’80s to find out the lessons we can learn.
Written by: Emily Reynolds