Tourism that seeks to engage with indigenous communities often masks the enduring historical struggle of who gets to decide what a place is and who benefits from it.
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Every year the festival attracts thousands of people to Scotland’s capital, but is the city able to harness this and improve it as a place to live?
People reached the Mediterranean island at least 8,500 years ago.
This powerful custody drama questions how society judges queer mothers.
BTS expressed a wish that ‘music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language’.
Fifa’s expansionist strategy is pushing elite footballers beyond acceptable limits.
Billed as Russia’s Michael McIntyre, Sasha Nezlobin is having to almost start again in exile.
Using orphan girl novels to study Ted Lasso brings certain themes into sharper focus – particularly its concern with fatherhood.
If you’re looking to be loved, Simone de Beauvoir would warn you to look away from AI.
In the exhibition, wood carving, metal casting, weaving and knotting are reimagined as tools for experimentation and personal expression.
Cricket prides itself on being a model of fair play and sportsmanship, but is it really that different from other sports?
The 19th-century spiritualist movement promised contact with the dead. Today’s AI grief tech is reviving that promise in unsettling new ways.
Rumour and gossip of sexual impropriety abounded in medieval society. Defamation offered a legal way of protecting a person’s good name.
Shakespeare used music in a multitude of ways to delight, amuse, relax, confuse and frighten his audiences.
Modern fashion trends have nothing on the agony caused by the fads of yesteryear.
Where Lestat (2005) killed off the vampire musical, TV’s Lestat is resurrecting it.
Getting lost in a book is now regarded as an enriching experience – but a few hundred years ago, reading novels was considered a corrupting force.
These expert recommendations are short enough to tear through over a weekend
Long before ChatGPT, Spielberg’s A.I. explored love, loneliness and what it really means to be human.
Her illustrations remain beautiful works of art, but they also show how the best natural history drawings make us notice things we might otherwise miss.
No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.
When AI renders antiquity, it’s not reaching back into history, it’s reaching for the average of every image ever made about it.
Today’s tradwives rework the ideals of the early 20th-century German housewives’ movement.
The singer has now transcended celebrity.
Creative works can represent emotions emerging so fast that our brains can’t quite catch up with them.