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Is Britain’s Strictest Headmistress a visionary or a tyrant?

Many of Katharine Birbalsingh’s rules seem petty beyond belief – but she gets results. What does her approach tell us…

By Hannah Rose Woods

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The pop stars tackling the climate cost of live music

The pop stars tackling the climate cost of live music

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Cornelia Parker exposes the hidden meanings of everyday objects

Michael Prodger

Harry Styles’ new album is a summery, Eighties-infused poolside record

Anna Leszkiewicz

The Brazilian landscapes of Frans Post capture the dismal dawn of the colonial age

Michael Prodger

Terence Davies's Benediction is a perfect portrait of an outsider

Terence Davies’s Benediction is a perfect portrait of an outsider

David Sexton

Inside the new venue ownership scheme hoping to save live music

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Reviews

Book of the Day

Against the Bolaño industry

Chris Power

Thom Yorke’s the Smile sound a lot like Radiohead – and that’s no bad thing

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale and the Big Steppers first listen: a brutally honest record

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale and the Big Steppers first listen: a brutally honest record

Musa Okwonga

Rebels Against the Raj: A morality tale for Modi’s nationalist India

Soumya Bhattacharya

Radio & Podcasts

Radio 4’s Red Lines is a heavy-handed attempt to pin today’s crisis in Ukraine on squeamish MPs in 2013

Rachel Cunliffe

Reviewed in short: New books from Graham Caveney, Giles Tremlett, Charlotte Van den Broeck and Chitra Ramaswamy

Reviewed in short: New books from Graham Caveney, Giles Tremlett, Charlotte Van den Broeck and Chitra Ramaswamy

Sophie McBain, Jeremy Cliffe, Michael Prodger and Gavin Jacobson

Interviews

Christer Sturmark Q&A: “Being in love is a kind of existential happiness”

Christer Sturmark Q&A: “Being in love is a kind of existential happiness”

New Statesman

Sharon Van Etten: “When you experience trauma, it doesn’t go away”

Sharon Van Etten: “When you experience trauma, it doesn’t go away”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Stella Rimington Q&A: “In another life I’d be home secretary”

Stella Rimington Q&A: “In another life I’d be home secretary”

New Statesman

Norman Scott interview: "I never loved Jeremy Thorpe, but he could be enormous fun"

The Kate Mossman Interview

Norman Scott interview: “I never loved Jeremy Thorpe, but he could be enormous fun”

Kate Mossman

The long read

“We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News

“We’re going to disrupt”: A year inside GB News

Faced with a new rival, can the channel survive? Staffers share the story of a tumultuous 12 months.

By Stuart McGurk