The cult of JS Bach’s solo cello works highlights a misguided modern tendency to deify the composer, argues Drew Forrest
In an interview with Drew Forrest, the Test opener insists our first-class game cannot be fixed using another, entirely different, format
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Amid Israel’s increasingly unhinged siege of the enclave, Drew Forrest probes the country’s claim that it is fighting a war against terror
Fears persist that Gaza is to be rendered permanently unliveable and its people shunted to tent camps
Health facilities are on the front line of the pitiless siege of Gaza
Horrifying as they were, the events of 7 October were the latest twist in a violent cycle triggered in the distant past
François le Vaillant painted a uniquely vivid picture of Khoikhoi tribes on the brink of settler-colonial genocide
It is a dishonest evasion to excuse the horrors of the Iranian regime on the grounds that some of its Western accusers have a tainted human rights record
Russia’s botched war of neo-colonial conquest in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s mendacious justifications for it, bear the closest resemblance in our age to Hitler’s campaign for Lebensraum
The founder of Black Consciousness kept evolving; by the time of his terrible death he was moving away from hard-line racial isolationism. DREW FORREST traces his development in a seminal collection of writings