Culture Samira Ahmed’s diary: My first swim in months, surviving the exams fiasco, and remembering Anne Brontë The Covid months of confinement – appreciating nature, reading, helping the elderly – present an opportunity to “think like a Brontë”. By Samira Ahmed
Can we stop the government criminalising protest? With Jodie Beck of Liberty The Public Order Bill is a worrying assault on basic freedoms. By Adrian Bradley, Rachel Cunliffe and NS Podcasts
Samira Ahmed’s Diary: The struggle for equal pay, no-platforming Selina Todd and sympathy for Priti Patel I think how much more we could all learn from listening to the experience of older feminists. By Samira Ahmed
Little House on the Prairie and its contested political legacy With her books, Laura Ingalls Wilder forged a myth of the American pioneer. By Samira Ahmed
Chain of command: how the office lanyard took over corporate culture “I realised that I had to sort myself out with a new lanyard or I was going to struggle… By Samira Ahmed
How a school visit prompted me to re-assess John Ruskin My week, from rediscovering John Ruskin and imagining H G Wells to chasing down a hero. By Samira Ahmed