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As degree show season comes to an end for another year, Hannah Ellis asks whether it's time to rethink a concept that favours the spectacular over the thoughtful and fails to accommodate many aspects of design practice

The Tea House Theatre are ‘not impressed’ with their applicants so far!

The long read: Its moral code promises salvation, its high priests uphold their orthodoxy. But perhaps too many of its doctrines are taken on faith

The activist and author speaks to Gary Younge about her book No is Not Enough, and the importance of finding a way to push back against the shock politics of the Trump administration

Luxury flats with a price tag of up to £50m were touted as an easy sell – yet have failed to shift as the London market slows

Ambassadors review likelihood of reversal despite many concluding no foreseeable scenario exists to allow for such a move

Andy Haldane says rise in self-employment and drop in union membership mirrors weak workforces of pre-1750 era

Politician says brew of rightwing EU bashers playing on voter insecurity and cuts fanning populist ideas is pushing Britain to margins

To millions, I’m the policeman who popped the question at last year’s parade in London. But to many more I’m an abomination – and that’s why Pride is still vital• Phil Adlem is a volunteer speaker for an LGBT charity, former frontline worker with homeless youth and police officer in the Metropolitan police

The government has laid out what EU citizens living in Britain can expect after the UK leaves the European Union

The haves might live alongside the have-nots, but they are socially segregated – let’s not pretend otherwise

While some residents welcome the families to Kensington Row others are less positive with concerns over future property prices

Ben Davis looks into whether a wealthy background is the connecting tissue beneath the apparent diversity in the art world.

Ratings form part of government’s teaching excellence framework and will come into force from the middle of next year

Former polytechnics and colleges struggle to survive, with disadvantaged students hit hardest by campus closures and job cuts

[image] The increased visibility of various forms of discrimination, populism, nationalism, state sanctioned cruelty and bureaucratic indifference, as practiced by world leaders including, but not limited to, Theresa May, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Rodrigo Duterte, has led to an attitudinal shift in the art world. Politics, hitherto confined to the relative hinterland of socially engaged art, has now become difficult to ignore. That is to say, the matter of where power is veste...

All but the soles of the luxury brand’s footwear are made in Transylvania before being ‘finished’ in Italy and France