A fringe play by a prison therapist about the impact of incarceration on femininity presents an intense and brutal world, yet one in which humanity still gets a redeeming look in.

I imagine that prison would be endlessly dull. And that's a tough quality to represent dramatically - boredom. A...

The race is already on to tell the big story about the News of the World / News International scandal. The details are still fast moving, of course. It has the excitement of a quick finish in speed chess.

But for a whole class of the commentariat, this...

Calvert22, the contemporary Russian art gallery in hippest Shoreditch, has just opened its summer exhibition, "Field of Action: The Moscow Conceptual School in Context". At least in their early incarnation, these artists prefigured Glasnost in their intelligent, open, creative critiques of the Soviet...

Here is Slovenian cultural critic, Slavoj Žižek's, favourite joke from Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka:

"Waiter, can I have a coffee? Without cream."
Waiter: "Sorry. We don't have cream. We have milk. Can I bring...