Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Dada – an early 20th-century art movement often dubbed ‘anti-art’ or ‘absurdist’ – emerged as a reaction...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Before the late twentieth century, celebrity was defined by difference: individuals were propelled into...

Image provided by Lee Barron. The Broad’s Creative Director Flora Leask chatted with Dr Lee Barron about his new non-fiction book AI and...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq As a Colombian, it never ceases to shock me whenever someone makes a Pablo Escobar or cocaine joke (even...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The past year has seen a new drug sweeping through the medical cabinets of the Hollywood glitterati....

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It was once written that the emergence of liberal democracies all around the world represented the end of...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq I recently read an article in The Economist describing an American university professor’s experience with...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq We live in a material world. We live in a world where people, no matter who or where, need houses to live...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Do you call yourself a liberal? If you are reading this, then there is a good chance that you do, but you...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq When Shen Yun came to the Edinburgh Playhouse to perform ‘5,000 Years of Chinese Civilization Reborn’, it...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq I wait in the window of Café Salut, the Old Medical School looming over me from across the street....

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq For as long as I’ve been a feminist, I’ve resented the term survivor being used in gender-based violence...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The case of Shamima Begum is not a simple one. Even when presented with all the facts, making an honest...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Recent reports in the mainstream media have demonstrated a pattern of disrespect towards women who have...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In 2003, Tony Blair was famously prevented from answering an interview question about his religious...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq On the 7th of December 2022, in a national broadcast, the then President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, took a...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The University of Edinburgh has been embroiled in a tumultuous period. Barely out of the global...

‘I’d get nervous whenever I’d see a knife… It scared me to imagine I might be sticking a knife in your chest’. This quote is one of the...

Rating: ***** With troublesome Brexit deals and the tumultuous relationship between England and Northern Ireland hot in the press, it...

Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq We are often reminded that we live in a democracy. Publicly owned news outlets, party political...