All people are intellectuals but not everyone in society is given the role of intellectual Antonio Gramsci Chaussée Ménilmontant barricade, Paris Commune, 18 March 1871. Image via Wikimedia Commons J.L. J.L. is a poet and lives in a house owned...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qMjne_WEEg The greatest winner of Brexit has been Nigel Farage. Almost everyone else are on the losing side, it seems. This political maneuver was conceived as a communications play and not as a policy, and IWM rector Misha Glenny evaluates...
AlamyBlending the style of The Rolling Stones with African beats and instruments, Zambian group Witch were revolutionary – then disappeared. No one could have predicted their amazing return.In the early 1970s, Zambia produced a unique music scene of its own...
A24Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal make for a starry love triangle in this exquisite new film from director Celine Song, who previously made the Oscar-nominated Past Lives.If you've seen any of the trailers for Celine Song's Materialists, ignore...
Andrei Linde(Credit: Andrei Linde)A new episode of the BBC's History's Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches, a group of Russian female pilots who bombed German forces under the cover of darkness.World War Two is filled with so many...
Getty ImagesThe Profumo affair led to a government minister's resignation on 5 June 1963. In 1983, Christine Keeler talked to the BBC about her part in a story of sex, lies and Cold War paranoia."For 20 years, I think I've...
Guerrilla GirlsIt's been 40 years since the controversial activist group Guerrilla Girls formed. Their most powerful campaign, the "naked poster", broke new ground – and has had a lasting influence.On a Sunday morning in New York in 1989, a few...
Getty ImagesTwenty five years ago, the rapper provoked outrage with his third LP, which shot him to superstardom, and was notorious for its offensive lyrics. Now it has become an even more divisive listen.Eminem's third studio album, The Marshall Mathers...
Rebecca Laurence, Hugh Montgomery and Nicholas BarberThis year's Cannes Film Festival finishes today – and from the hundreds of titles that premiered, here are the ones which are going to be big talking points all through 2025.1. Die, My LoveWith...
Courtesy of the Cannes Film FestivalAfter years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns to Cannes with a furious but funny revenge thriller that takes aim at oppressive regimes and could scoop the Palme d'Or.The...
