ANDY HEDGECOCK picks out his cultural highlights of 2025

Star cartoonist MALC MCGOOKIN finds lessons for today in the punch, and the economy of line, of an extraordinary generation of illustrators

LEO BOIX, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Dreamers, It Was Just An Accident, Folktales, and Eternity

JENNY MITCHELL, poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, introduces her priorities, and her first selection

HENRY BELL is sceptical of the notion that ‘progress’ is an ideology that the ruling class uses exclusively to camouflage appropriation

In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state

BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution