ArchitectureInmate deaths are up by 20% in the UK, the most incarcerated nation in western Europe. Can prisons designed using virtual reality modelling undo the harm? A huge image of a snowcapped mountain covers the wall at the end of a long corridor of cells in Her Majesty’s Prison Berwyn, providing a glimmer of relief from the sterile landscape of indestructible concrete walls and wipe-clean floors, flooded with harsh white light. Read More...
France This article is more than 1 month oldFrance passes controversial immigration bill amid deep division in Macron’s partyThis article is more than 1 month oldStrict new law contains so many hardline measures that the far-right Marine Le Pen has claimed it as an ‘ideological victory’
The French government is facing a political crisis after the health minister Aurélien Rousseau offered his resignation in protest over a hardline immigration bill. Read More...
Elvis: 25 years on This article is more than 21 years oldHe wasn't my kingThis article is more than 21 years oldHelen KolawoleFor black people, Elvis, more than any other performer, epitomises the theft of their music and danceAs another celebration of a dead white hero winds up, in this hallowed Week of Elvis, shouldn't the entertainment industry hold its own truth and reconciliation commission?
It needn't be a vehicle for retribution, just somewhere where tales of white appropriation of black culture, not to mention outright theft, can finally be laid to rest. Read More...