UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga
Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’
Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil
Book festivals and events still sponsored by Baillie Gifford to meet investment firm amid row over funding
Filthy lucre is everywhere, but book festivals are an easy target for protesters’ fury
Hay and Edinburgh forgo pragmatism in turning their backs on the Baillie Gifford fund
Being a politician was ‘very yucky’, ex-MP Rory Stewart tells Hay audience
Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at once
Edinburgh international book festival ends Baillie Gifford partnership
Festival bows to pressure from authors and activists over investment firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies
Geri Halliwell-Horner reveals writing advice she was given by top authors
Ex-Spice Girl tells Hay festival about tips from William Boyd and Jacqueline Wilson for children’s book
News of the World paid women to sleep with celebrities, James Blunt says
Tabloid had women on payroll to get stories about people’s sexual performance, singer tells Hay festival
David Nicholls warns readers against trying to visit novel’s locations
Bestselling writer says Lake District sites in new book You Are Here are ‘genuinely all made up’
Hay festival drops main sponsor after boycotts over Israel and fossil fuel links
Literary event ‘suspends’ arrangement with Baillie Gifford after Charlotte Church and Nish Kumar joined performers pulling out
Anthony Horowitz: writers should not be told to make books more diverse
Children’s author tells Hay festival he is aware of need to be inclusive but it should not be imposed
Beating Hearts review – operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat
Gilles Lelouche’s new movie aims for a Springsteenesque blue-collar energy but buckles under the weight of its own naivety
Labour MP Dawn Butler withdraws from Hay festival in sponsorship row
Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged involvement in ‘technology and arms in Israel’
A night with the Murdle squad… and hundreds of crime writers
Can a visit to the Bristol CrimeFest – this year featuring GT Karber, creator of the whodunnit series Murdle – help pin down why the crime genre is booming?
Oh, Canada review – Paul Schrader looks north as Richard Gere’s draft dodger reveals all
A dying director who fled from the US to Canada agrees to make a confessional film in Schrader’s fragmented and anticlimactic story
‘It really isn’t good enough’: crime novel of the year award criticised for entirely white longlist
Authors including Dreda Say Mitchell, Harriet Tyce and Sarah Pinborough have expressed disapproval of the Theakston Old Peculier award – one of the UK’s most prestigious crime-writing prizes