TOM SYKES explores how art has critiqued politics from Aristotle to Brecht, as Portsmouth Performers for Palestine prepares to showcase poetry, fiction and music reflecting on genocide, dispossession and colonialism at the White Swan Theatre
Tom Sykes


Genocide, racism and imperialism are in the Labour Party’s DNA, argues TOM SYKES

A legal case at the ICJ has exposed the role of Indonesian arms sales that were crucial to enabling Myanmar to kill thousands of civilians, reports TOM SYKES

Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jnr has won, using a tech-savvy social media rewrite of his parents’ dictatorship and a troll army to smear his closest competitor — DR TOM SYKES reports on a society seemingly unable to leave its own dark age

TOM SYKES went to Jaywick in Essex last summer and kept a diary. Here is an extract illustrated by his companion on that journey Louis Netter

TOM SYKES examines the ever-expanding military-industrial-academic complex