1. What history tells us about the refugee crisis
Europe’s failure to accommodate the refugees on its doorstep is more than a humanitarian crisis, writes Lyndsey Stonebridge – it has disturbing historical roots.
Its pretensions to a "scientific" experiment long since forgotten, Big Brother shows us how trapped we are in celebrity culture, says Mark Fisher.
Advances in design are creating robots that look – and behave – increasingly like humans. Will Wiles asks: is that such a good thing?
Bad news: we’ve only got a few billion years before the sun dies. Should humanity survive that long, is there any chance of escape? Tosin Thompson explores.
5. We are here because you were there: a retrospective of black British art
Holding an exhibition that celebrates black British art at the Guildhall, with its colonial legacy, is an act akin to resistance, writes Lola Okolosie.
