While a war photograph cannot stop a missile or feed a child, it can challenge denial and define a war, suggest SARA OSCAR and CHERINE FAHD


KENNY MACASKILL delivers his assessment of Nicloa Sturgeon’s account of her political career

ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party

MIKE COWLEY welcomes half a century of remarkable work, that begins before the Greens and invites a connection to — and not a division from — nature

WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate

JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act