Laura Freeman
Laura Freeman is a freelance arts critic and book reviewer. She is writing a biography, Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists, to be published by Jonathan Cape
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society