Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.

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The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.

Red Pepper #247 SPRING 2025 Our final quarterly print edition surveys innovations and transformations in left media past, present and future – providing inspiration for readers to guide where Red ...

Red Pepper’s beginnings brought together socialist and environmentalist ideas, and this continues in our environment and climate section. As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we ...

It is said that history is written by the winners, but increasingly it is being interpreted by those who see themselves as modernity’s cultural losers. Collectively, these individuals are referred to ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

E arlier this year, before Covid-19 took over the world, a women-led occupation in a South Delhi neighbourhood caught international media attention.The Shaheen Bagh protests had started in ...

In summer 2022, I wrote here about Russia’s co-option of cultural institutions in Ukraine. That ongoing war effort seeks in part to re-write ‘official’ histories through seizure of artefacts and ...

What’s more offensive than a £10 million state-funded victory celebration for Margaret Thatcher is that, unlike the woman herself, her ideas are still alive and kicking. Amid the debris of a global ...

Alex Nunns is a writer, editor and activist. He worked as Jeremy Corbyn’s speechwriter from 2018-20, and his book The Candidate won the 2017 Bread and Roses Award ...