MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion

Global Peace Photography Award 2022
THE Global Peace Photo Award (TGPPA) recognises and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives.
The award goes to those that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence. Inner peace, peaceful coexistence, peace within a community, peace between nations, international policy of peace — what do we associate with all this?

JOHN GREEN recommends a German comedy that celebrates the old GDR values of solidarity, community and a society not dominated by consumerism

JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal

Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place

Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds