After Baillie Gifford: are literary festivals on their last legs?

Over the past 75 years, the idea of the book festival has become embedded in the British cultural landscape. But as costs rise sharply and reading habits change, many are finding it a struggle to survive

‘I want space for jokes’: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine

Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarket

Protests against arts sponsorship in Britain are killing culture. Be careful what you wish for

Baillie Gifford’s financial support of the biggest book festivals ended after a campaign against its fossil fuel ties. Britain’s arts need more corporate cash, not less

Book festivals previously sponsored by Baillie Gifford seek donations

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine book festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers

Now the investment fund is pulling out of literary festivals, what other sponsors will dare expose themselves to the scrutiny of Fossil Free Books?

Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals

Investment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure

Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

Insistence on investment purity misses the point and will only lead to a decline in arts sponsorship

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

Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’

Former Australian prime minister issues warning that young men’s thinking on the issue is going backward

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

‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’

Author of novel Prophet Song about an imagined fascist Ireland tells Hay audience he is not a political writer

David Baddiel: trauma passed on from Holocaust is why I do comedy

Promoting his book at Hay festival, comedian says his mother and grandparents’ flight from Nazi Germany affected later generations

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