Fleeting ministerial tenures point to short-termism inimical to change

Thanks to synaesthesia Lucy McKenna experiences the world differently to most people, and now, following a stint at Cern, she’s trying to explain huge questions in science with art

A convoluted plot that Potter-philes will love gets a thrilling, magical staging

Heavy security but no hint of the ‘forest of placards’ predicted by Gilmore five years ago

Poet was killed in 1936 on orders of troops loyal to Franco, police papers confirm

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions

A writer of supreme talent and versatility, Rebecca West was astute in everything except how to live