On 17 January, the UK government released the list of its stated reasons for using against the Scottish parliament. Alex/Rose Cocker / the Canary* The unprecedented move blocked the new Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill, which would otherwise remove requirements for gender dysphoria diagnosis in order to obtain a Gender Recognition […]
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The Doomsday Clock and the global crisis
Climate change, the war in Ukraine, the post-Covid era, the exploitation of nature and the rise of inequality portray a grim picture of our world. We are 90 seconds to midnight. Juanjo Andrés Cuervo It was the year 1947 when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the […]
Music and multiculturalism in springtime
From 21 April to 7 May 2023, London Latin Music Festival La Linea will return this spring featuring its mix of international stars and the brightest emerging talent from across the diverse Latin music scene. La Linea 2023 kicks off with a concert from three-time Latin Grammy winning Peruvian singer Susana Baca. Baca marked the 50th year of her career in 2021 […]
On the run and off the grid
Henry Thoreau famously went to live alone in a small house he built for himself: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I […]
‘Atma’, the soul of sitar
British-Asian Roopa Panesar is one of a growing group of women who are professional sitarists. She will be at the Barbican Centre in London on Saturday 18 February. Roopa, who began playing sitar at the age of 7, is considered one of the best sitar players on the Indian […]
















