MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
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Labour must make a radical commitment to widespread cultural democracy in its next election manifesto, says MIKE QUILLE
Shining example: Liverpool-based 20 Stories High are setting the pace in providing equal access to the arts for young people
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
“WE DESIRE to assure to our people full access to the great heritage of culture in this nation.”
Those words are from the Labour Party manifesto of 1945. But what does culture mean to us now and what should the next Labour manifesto say about it?
Culture matters to everyone. We all develop and flourish as social beings through engaging in cultural activities — sport, watching television and films, going to pubs and restaurants, listening to music, meeting together for religious or spiritual purposes and communicating using social media.
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