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Inside Manchester’s new wave of radical club nights

Vision over profit — From funeral reenactments to mariachi bands: events like The White Hotel and Fat Out want to introduce more challenging, political and philosophical ways of partying.

  • Music
  • Luke Charnley

Look out: facial recognition has finally come to London

What you need to know — This week, the Metropolitan police began its first live deployment of the controversial technology in the capital. We headed to Stratford to see the rollout.

  • Reportage
  • Peter Yeung

Inside London’s new Museum of Neoliberalism

A history of greed — The Lewisham venue examines the way the world – and specifically the UK – has changed since Thatcher and Reagan came into power.

  • Activism
  • Tom Usher

Is this what freedom looks like?

Welcome to Brexit Britain — At 11pm on Friday night, Britain left the European Union – and thousands headed to Parliament Square to celebrate. Photographer Theo McInnes was there to capture the crowds.

  • Photography
  • Huck

The changing face of British culture, in photos

The people’s city — The British Culture Archive uses photography to ‘document, highlight and preserve’ the transformations of UK society.

  • Photography
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

Angry white men have declared war on the planet (again)

The Fightback: Climate — The culture war is no longer a trivial sideshow to the fight against material inequality, writes Ash Sarkar. If we lose, we lose on the climate too.

  • Opinion
  • Ash Sarkar

Bruce Davidson’s portrait of post-war Britain

A united kingdom — Travelling across the UK in 1960, the photographer captured a country driven by difference, struggling with post-war trauma and economic hardship.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

Jess Phillips: woman of the people, or just out for herself?

A quest for truth — The Labour leadership candidate markets herself as a bold and refreshing outsider, when in fact she embodies the status quo.

  • Opinion
  • Dawn Foster

How to survive Boris, from the people that survived Thatcher

‘Don’t stop fighting’ — Now the dust has settled on last month’s election result, writer Emily Reynolds talks to activists from the ’80s to find out the lessons we can learn.

  • Reportage
  • Emily Reynolds

The collective that changed Preston’s cultural scene

Northern paradise — In 2009, Adam Murray and Robert Parkinson started Preston Is My Paris – a zine dedicated to invigorating the city’s artistic landscape.

  • Photography
  • Jacob Charles Wilson

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