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idiot brain
Books / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

JOHN GREEN is intrigued by an explanation of irrational behaviour from the point of view of brain science

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: A photograph of US President Donald Trump and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed on the side of a van in Aberdeen city centre, during Trump’s private trip to Scotland last year
Politics / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN

radicals
Books / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

JOHN GREEN is disappointed by a history of the British working class that retreads familiar paths and offers no new insights

species
Books / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

JOHN GREEN welcomes a vital contribution to the debates around genetic manipulation

TAINTED PAST REVISITS PRESENT: Postbank in Berlin / Pic: EmptyTerms/CC
Civil Liberties / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026

JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right

Parr
Books / 5 February 2026
5 February 2026

JOHN GREEN explores the controversial and popular images of the late Martin Parr, made in the heyday of Thatcherism

fotw
Film of the Week / 29 January 2026
29 January 2026

JOHN GREEN savours an elegy to black farmers in the deep south of the US: a vanishing way of life redolent with poetic and political meaning

everything
Books / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026

JOHN GREEN’s palate is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories

near dark
Book Review / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

JOHN GREEN is intrigued by the ethereal, ghostly quality of images of a London unobscured by the bustle of humanity

spike
Books / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

JOHN GREEN asks how can we take decisive action on population levels with a world leader who is a destructive ignoramus

round up
Cinema / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck

tree
Book Review / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

JOHN GREEN enjoys a highly informative stroll through the evolutionary history of trees and planetary life

fotw
Film of the week / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict

File photo dated 27/03/23 of former prime minister Sir Tony Blair during an interview
Features / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025

JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair

ghosts
Books / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

JOHN GREEN is enchanted by the story of women’s farm work, both now and the the 1940s, that brims with political and social insight

malangatana
Book Review / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025

JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist

soul
Film of the week / 28 August 2025
28 August 2025

Despite the primitive means the director was forced to use, this is an incredibly moving film from Gaza and you should see it, urges JOHN GREEN

fotw
Film of the Week / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025

JOHN GREEN recommends an Argentinian film classic on re-release - a deliciously cynical tale of swindling and double-cross

earthquakes
Books / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America

metamorf
Exhibition review / 16 July 2025
16 July 2025

JOHN GREEN is stirred by an ambitious art project that explores solidarity and the shared memory of occupation

PARRIQUE
Books / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

JOHN GREEN applauds an excellent and accessible demonstration that the capitalist economy is the biggest threat to our existence

abundance
Books / 12 June 2025
12 June 2025

JOHN GREEN isn’t helped by the utopian fantasy of a New York Times bestseller that ignores class struggle and blames the so-called ’progressives’

fall
Book Review / 30 May 2025
30 May 2025

JOHN GREEN wades through a pessimistic prophesy that does not consider the need for radical change in political and social structures

CONTESTED HISTORY: The Neue Wache (“the New Watchhouse”) was rebuilt by the GDR in 1957 and reopened in 1960 as a Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Militarism — then, in 1993, it was rededicated to the ‘victims of war and tyranny’
Features / 26 May 2025
26 May 2025

JOHN GREEN observes how Berlin’s transformation from socialist aspiration to imperial nostalgia mirrors Germany’s dangerous trajectory under Chancellor Merz — a BlackRock millionaire and anti-communist preparing for a new war with Russia