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Cinema
In the new political thriller from Gavin Hood (Eye in the Sky), Keira Knightley plays Katharine Gun, a GCHQ employee who leaked an email coercing support for the Iraq War
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Talks
Enter into the debate on Europe and the environment with world experts at the Night of Ideas
Tried and Tested
Cinema
Hugh Jackman stars in political biopic The Front Runner as disgraced presidential candidate Gary Hart – but did this film need to be made?
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Eminent historians and thinkers engage in discussion about the controversy surrounding statues of problematic historical figures.
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Opera
Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe gets the One Man, Two Guvnors treatment as director Cal McCrystal takes on the entire House of Lords – and wins
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Talks
Plunge into the Brexit minefield with How to Academy's talk How to Stop Brexit, featuring Nick Clegg and Emily Maitlis
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Visual Arts
Melancholia, the Soviet Union and failed utopias - this Ilya and Emilia Kabakov exhibition is a majestic monument to the forgotten
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Theatre
This lively exploration of the Labour Party from Kinnock to Corbyn is another landslide victory for playwright James Graham
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Theatre
Oslo, J. T. Rogers' political thriller about negotiations between Israel and Palestine is an intelligent, moving reminder that peace is fragile
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Talks
Hear from the one who should have won: Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton asks 'What Happened?' in her only UK public appearance
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Talks
An exercise in comparison: philosopher AC Grayling considers the future of democracy today by exploring crises of democracy in the past
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Visual Arts
A young LA- and NY-based photo sensation takes on America's bigotry and racism in the heart of Mayfair
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Talks
What next? In the wake of Article 50, Gina Miller, Roger Graef and Stanley Johnson join the how to: Academy to discuss the burning question of How to Brexit
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Theatre
Steve Waters shows how politics are coming full circle in this potent, pacy and all too prescient new play about the 1981 Labour Party split
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Talks
Tired of extremes? Nick Clegg talks Brexit, Trump and populist politics – and the liberal way forward
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Wondering how we'll survive Trump? Attend how to: Academy's President Trump 100 days Debate to talk his presidency and shifting ideologies
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Has feminism become an elitist movement? Intelligence Squared brings together speakers to explore how gender equality can be made more easily accessible
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Talks
5x15 invites a diverse cast of experts to speak on the power of film and moving image for a special, day-long event
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Who will win the day? Fiona Shaw joins an ensemble cast of star writers and performers in the battle of the great queens
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How to take part in Inauguration Weekend in London: A Women’s March, a festival of plays that explore Trump’s admission to office, and an UNaugural ball.
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Talks
A festival of plays explores and debates the Trump presidency over the inauguration weekend
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Theatre
After 2012's landslide victory at the National Theatre, James Graham's political drama is still relevant at Garrick Theatre, London
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Talks
What will President Trump do as leader of the free world? This how to: Special Event aims to make sense of the subject filling us all with fear
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Talks
Colin Firth and Emma Thompson head up an impressive list of speakers for a conversation on the refugee crisis in aid of the Helen Bamber Foundation
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President Trump has been elected. Here's all the events, talks and debates happening in London in the aftermath of the US Election 2016
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Talks
A very rare public appearance from Edward Snowden: the whistleblower will discuss mass surveillance after a sceening of film Citizenfour
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Cinema
Almost Holy follows a vigilante cleaning up Ukraine in his own way
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Talks
Newsnight's supreme inquisitor will discuss his new memoir with Today programme presenter John Humphrys
Features
In strange times we turn to political documentaries. 2016's problems only start with Brexit...
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn talks to poet Ben Okri at the Royal Festival Hall
Features
Westminster's a drama of epic, tragic proportions, but the Shakespeare parallels are becoming a farce
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From food, to fashion, to film, could it be London’s peerless cultural life that suffers the most in this post-Brexit world? We investigate