Readers reply: is it true that British people get nicer the farther north you go?
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Is it true that British people get nicer the farther north you go?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Unicorns star Jason Patel: ‘If you don’t toot your own horn, who else will?’
In queer love story Unicorns, the young British actor plays a dazzling drag queen living two lives. He talks about his road to performing, family pride, and the need for a thick skin
June 2024
Where the wild flings are: chasing the Highland games – in pictures
D-day deserter Rishi Sunak didn’t do his duty, so why should gen Z be expected to do theirs?
Martha Gill
April 2024
Bait, ting, certi: how UK rap changed the language of the nation
Domestic bliss: legends in their own living rooms – in pictures
March 2024
Cotton Capital: ongoing series
Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary
‘We’re the Muslim Spice Girls!’ Shazia Mirza on finding box office gold with her halal comedy supergroup
February 2024
Samuel Takes a Break review – a stomach-churning tourist trip around an old slave castle
Yard theatre, London A Ghanaian tour guide struggles to maintain his composure in the face of historical ignorance and requests for selfies, in Rhianna Ilube’s poignant critique of colonialism and tourism
January 2024
Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism
From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring
What Enid Blyton and Brambly Hedge don’t tell you about being Black in the British countryside
Growing up in suburban London with Jamaican heritage, novelist Fiona Williams was enchanted by the bucolic visions of our classic children’s literature. But moving to the country as an adult raised complex feelings about belonging
Britons living abroad regain right to vote in UK elections as 15-year rule ends
Change to franchise brings UK in line with other major democracies which allow lifelong voting rights
November 2023
Haunted by past horror: the powerful film about a mother and daughter in the Gorbals
She won an award for the play Expensive Shit. Now Adura Onashile has made Girl, her debut film about a mother and daughter facing violence and racism in Glasgow. How autobiographical is it?
October 2023
‘He showed our lives in ways that had never been seen’: Horace Ové, pioneer of black British cinema
As the BFI dedicates a new season to his ‘radical vision’, friends, family, colleagues and contemporaries remember the director and explain the revolutionary and liberating force of his films
‘He changed my life’: Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz and more on Terence Davies
Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity
Death of England: Closing Time review – riotous comedy with a serious sting
Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ state-of-the-nation series continues, this time giving the perspective of the women in its central duo’s lives
September 2023
Less than half of black Britons feel proud to be British, landmark study says
‘Whatever you offer, I’ll take’: the poet who crossed Europe filming Black experience
August 2023
Book of the day
Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup review – agonising and absorbing
Alf Ramsey– still the only manager of any England side to lead the country to World Cup glory – is the complex central figure in Duncan Hamilton’s elegiac account of the shadow that fell across the coach and his players after 1966
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Book of the dayAnswered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup review – agonising and absorbingAlf Ramsey – still the only manager of any England side to lead the country to World Cup glory – is the complex central figure in Duncan Hamilton’s elegiac account of the shadow that fell across the coach and his players after 1966