Culture

Photographer Neil Kenlock: ‘I protected the Black Panthers with my camera’
Neil Kenlock photograph
Photography

Photographer Neil Kenlock: ‘I protected the Black Panthers with my camera’

Neil Kenlock’s pioneering work explored ideas around identity, representation and community, showcasing the cultural lives of black people in Britain
These feminist posters were radical when first created. Some are still painfully relevant today
See Red Women's Workshop posters
Beyond The Streets

These feminist posters were radical when first created. Some are still painfully relevant today

Robocobra Quartet have made a five-hour album with 100 songs. Why have they done it?
Robocobra Quartet
Music

Robocobra Quartet have made a five-hour album with 100 songs. Why have they done it?

Top Stories

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’
Letter To My Younger Self

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’

Artist Shane Record: ‘I paint portraits of people facing homelessness to give them visibility’
Art

Artist Shane Record: ‘I paint portraits of people facing homelessness to give them visibility’

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Letter To My Younger Self

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Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’
Letter To My Younger Self

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’
Ashley Walters
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’

‘What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office’
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk
Letter To My Younger Self

‘What’s done to animals is so incredibly cruel, all I did was invade Anna Wintour’s office’

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’
Chase & Status
Letter to Our Younger Selves

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’

TV

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Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’
Ashley Walters
Letter To My Younger Self

Actor Ashley Walters: ‘There’s no way you cannot be political as a young black man in London’

Sir Patrick Stewart: ‘Take on Trump? Make it so’
Film

Sir Patrick Stewart: ‘Take on Trump? Make it so’

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: ‘Just to be linked with James Bond is great’
Interview

This City Is Ours star James Nelson-Joyce: ‘Just to be linked with James Bond is great’

Why we made controversial Channel 4 documentary The Experiment
Mat Fraser, Sophie L Morgan fronting C4 doc The Experiment
TV

Why we made controversial Channel 4 documentary The Experiment

Books

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Charlie Mackesy: ‘I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI’
Charlie Mackesy
Illustration

Charlie Mackesy: ‘I’d rather have spilt ink and spelling mistakes than AI’

I am a big fan of eulogies. Here’s why they are far more revealing than obituaries
white and yellow flowers in a vase in front of a grey background
Books

I am a big fan of eulogies. Here’s why they are far more revealing than obituaries

Patrice Lawrence: ‘My dad was homeless. I never felt seen in the books I read growing up’
Children's Laureate Patrice Lawrence
Books

Patrice Lawrence: ‘My dad was homeless. I never felt seen in the books I read growing up’

Stephen Mulhern: ‘I genuinely believe that anything is possible’
Stephen Mulhern
Recommended reads

Stephen Mulhern: ‘I genuinely believe that anything is possible’

Interviews

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Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’
Letter To My Younger Self

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’

Squeeze have soundtracked the lives of generations of fans. And they’re still hitting new heights
Sophie Morgan: ‘We need to be able to make this country inclusive for everybody’
Sophie Morgan, writer, broadcaster and disability advocate.
PM For The PM

Sophie Morgan: ‘We need to be able to make this country inclusive for everybody’

Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’
Rob Delaney as Senator George Miller in Being Heumann
Interview

Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’

Film

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Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’
Rob Delaney as Senator George Miller in Being Heumann
Interview

Being Heumann’s Rob Delaney: ‘Don’t sit around hoping another world is possible. Build it by hand’

Being Heumann: ‘Our world looks different because of what these protesters did’
Ruth Madeley as Judy Heumann in Being Heumann
Disability activism

Being Heumann: ‘Our world looks different because of what these protesters did’

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’
Film

Onwards and Sideways writer Paul Mayhew-Archer: ‘I fight Parkinson’s by looking for ways to find it funny’

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 
Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Hoetjes in Tenzing
Film

Willem Dafoe: ‘I want to have an experience that transforms or changes me’ 

Music

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Robocobra Quartet have made a five-hour album with 100 songs. Why have they done it?
Robocobra Quartet
Music

Robocobra Quartet have made a five-hour album with 100 songs. Why have they done it?

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’
Letter To My Younger Self

Squeeze stars Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook: ‘At 16 I was homeless. Music was my lifeline’

As AI threatens to steal composers’ livelihoods, the industry is fighting back
Music

As AI threatens to steal composers’ livelihoods, the industry is fighting back

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’
Chase & Status
Letter to Our Younger Selves

Chase & Status: ‘We were vinyl-collecting kids obsessed with smashing up a rave’

Art

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These feminist posters were radical when first created. Some are still painfully relevant today
See Red Women's Workshop posters
Beyond The Streets

These feminist posters were radical when first created. Some are still painfully relevant today

Artist Shane Record: ‘I paint portraits of people facing homelessness to give them visibility’
Painting of Clive in Folkestone
Art

Artist Shane Record: ‘I paint portraits of people facing homelessness to give them visibility’

Mr Skelly artist Christian Watson: ‘I had a pretty rough childhood. I felt wronged by the world’
Mr Skelly artwork.
Art

Mr Skelly artist Christian Watson: ‘I had a pretty rough childhood. I felt wronged by the world’

See the protest art hitting London’s streets to mark Big Issue’s 35th birthday
Paste Present Future asked notable protest artists: what is your big issue?
Art

See the protest art hitting London’s streets to mark Big Issue’s 35th birthday

Theatre

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‘We are locking up too many women’: Why the RSC’s Julius Caesar is back behind bars
The cast of the new Julius Caesar.
Theatre

‘We are locking up too many women’: Why the RSC’s Julius Caesar is back behind bars

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: ‘Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system’
Theatre

Pearl Mackie on her prison play: ‘Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system’

Bonnie Oddie: ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying’
Theatre

Bonnie Oddie: ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying’

Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’
Actor Shonagh Marie in Bullet Tongue
Arts

Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’

Radio

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How the Shipping Forecast inspired poetry and wonder for over 100 years
Weather

How the Shipping Forecast inspired poetry and wonder for over 100 years

‘I was homeless at 16’: DJ Charlie Sloth on rough sleeping and living in poverty as a young father
Homelessness

‘I was homeless at 16’: DJ Charlie Sloth on rough sleeping and living in poverty as a young father

Why you should make Resonance FM the background noise to your life
10Foot Takeover

Why you should make Resonance FM the background noise to your life

Uncanny USA podcast host Danny Robins on Bigfoot, UFOs and why Americans scare differently to Brits
Danny Robins on set for Uncanny USA sitting on a rusty car
Podcasts

Uncanny USA podcast host Danny Robins on Bigfoot, UFOs and why Americans scare differently to Brits