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  • The director Peter Brook is shown in profile in a theatre

    Peter Brook and the empty space

    The late Peter Brook was a theatre director extraordinaire. Tony Graham shows how despite occasional misjudgements, he will inspire future generations for years to come

  • A still from Oleksandr Dovzhenko's 1928 film Zvenigora

    Zvenigora: Looking back at a Ukrainian cinema marvel

    The current war in Ukraine gives a new significance to the work of the Soviet-era Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, writes Juliet Jacques

  • Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (left) and former US President Ronald Reagan (right) sat together in a golf cart

    Key words: Neoliberalism

    In the first in our keywords series, Gregk Foley traces the birth of neoliberal economics and how it came to rule the world

  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

  • Caricature drawing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in a puppet show holding sticks

    Why should socialists read Marx? 

    Marx remains a vital conversational partner, writes Tom Whyman

  • A scuba diver underwater faces the camera, whilst another appears in the background

    Diving into history

    Over 1.8 million people died on trans-Atlantic slave ships, including on hundreds that sank. Tara Roberts reports on the divers excavating the wrecks of a terrible trade

  • Photo of he Dorman Long tower prior to its demolition

    The fate of Teesside’s industrial heritage

    After the destruction of the Dorman Long Tower, George Walker calls for a democratic approach to commemorating Teesside’s industrial heritage

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