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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the...

If everybody had an ocean… Rarely have five simple words in pop music held such promise.  The message at the time was an invitation squarely aimed at teens: “If everybody had an ocean, across the USA/Then everybody’d be surfin...

By Yomi Olusegun-Joseph INTRODUCTION: THE YORUBA, CULTURAL TRANSACTIONS AND THE MODERNIST IDEA To contend that the highway of spirited cultural dialogue and exchange in the contemporary Yoruba world owes its existence entirely to the historic construction...

How Vladimir Putin’s desperate hold on power is fuelling the next revolution by Michael Petrou Illustration by Adrian Lee I. In late April, the forests surrounding Pikalyovo, an industrial city 250 km east of St. Petersburg, are still blanketed...

In this fifth of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from recent weeks. Tell us in the comments section below if there's anything we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's column Wayne...