Review | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The latest in a series of British horror films subverts expectations.
2025 Cultural Highlights: Music
As the year draws to a close, rs21 members review their music highlights of 2025
2025 Cultural Highlights
As the year draws to a close, rs21 members review their cultural highlights of 2025
Who designs the future?
As AI reshapes labour, designers confront a struggle over their creativity and the future of their work
Review | Emergency Exits exhibition
The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule
Britain’s vanishing nightlife
What the loss of night clubs mean, for community, for queer freedom and for the right to collective joy
Review | I Swear
Colin Revolting reviews I Swear, a film about the life of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson
The case for abolishing mass media
Far-right movements are driven not just by ideology but by the media itself
Death to the IDF! Long live punk!
Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set signals a revival of punk’s radical political roots.
Queer joy and support for Palestine face police harassment
The annual George Michael Memorial Party faced a police crackdown last month, after its support for Palestine last year.
Review | Andor, Season 2
Rebellion against an empire complicit in genocide – in Star Wars, now a Disney brand. On the complexities of Andor.
Review | The Penguin Lessons
A review of Steve Coogan’s new film which is set in the context of 1970s Argentina under the repression of the military junta
Review | Mickey 17
Boon Jong-Ho’s new film Mickey 17 uses science fiction to shine a light on our world
Review | Hard Graft
Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.
The cultural problem of ‘treatlerism’
Treatlerism describes a reactionary entitlement rooted in exploitation. But what if we reclaimed entitlement?
Review | Forest of Noise
A review of a new collection of poetry by Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha.
Review | One hundred years of solitude
A review of the new film version of Gabriel García Márquez’s wonderful novel ‘One hundred years of solitude’, first published in 1967
Review | Burnout
Samuel Kelly reviews Hannah Proctor’s Burnout, a timely exploration of the emotional toll of political struggle, offering ways to navigate despair and sustain hope in our movements.
Review | Mixing Pop and Politics
A review of Mixing Pop and Politics by Toby Manning, a Marxist history of popular music that analyses the relationship between society’s economic base and its cultural superstructure.
Ghost Dance Against the Silence of Money
A review of Dead Cities & Other Tales by Mike Davis
The revolutionary theatre of Bertolt Brecht
Australian socialist Tess Lee Ack celebrates the life and work of the revolutionary playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht.
