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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: A photograph of US President Donald Trump and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed on the side of a van in Aberdeen city centre, during Trump’s private trip to Scotland last year
Features / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN

radicals
Books / 11 March 2026
11 March 2026

JOHN GREEN is disappointed by a history of the British working class that retreads familiar paths and offers no new insights

species
Books / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

JOHN GREEN welcomes a vital contribution to the debates around genetic manipulation

TAINTED PAST REVISITS PRESENT: Postbank in Berlin / Pic: EmptyTerms/CC
Civil Liberties / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026

JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right

Parr
Books / 5 February 2026
5 February 2026

JOHN GREEN explores the controversial and popular images of the late Martin Parr, made in the heyday of Thatcherism

fotw
Film of the Week / 29 January 2026
29 January 2026

JOHN GREEN savours an elegy to black farmers in the deep south of the US: a vanishing way of life redolent with poetic and political meaning

everything
Books / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026

JOHN GREEN’s palate is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories

near dark
Book Review / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

JOHN GREEN is intrigued by the ethereal, ghostly quality of images of a London unobscured by the bustle of humanity

spike
Books / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

JOHN GREEN asks how can we take decisive action on population levels with a world leader who is a destructive ignoramus

round up
Cinema / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck

tree
Book Review / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

JOHN GREEN enjoys a highly informative stroll through the evolutionary history of trees and planetary life

fotw
Film of the week / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict