Stephen Fry: Facebook and other platforms should be classed as publishers
Speaking at Hay festival, writer accuses ‘aggregating news agencies’ of not taking responsibility for their content
Thirty years on, Hay festival is still thinking, talking and laughing
It was conceived as an excuse to ‘have a few mates round’, but now the Hay literary festival is embracing a much wider vision and is a global event
The 10 best things to do this week: Annie, Hay festival and Killology
Miranda Hart plays a spiteful orphanage owner, literature’s finest minds meet in Wales and the Royal Court parses out an apocalyptic future
The best literary events of Christmas 2016 – from Hay’s winter weekend to Moominland
Celebrate the legacy of a Dickensian Christmas with candelit processions, carols and 1940s radio
Shakespeare dominates Hay festival during anniversary year
Despite Benedict Cumberbatch’s surprise appearances at the 2016 Hay festival, it’s Shakespeare who has been the star of the programme
Exam board rules on punctuation are wrong, wrong, and wrong
Linguistics expert David Crystal tells Hay festival that school advisers are ‘not aware of complexity of decisions they are asking kids to make’
CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than in US
Michael Hayden talks at Hay festival about Edward Snowden and how Facebook, not government, is new privacy battleground
Hay festival: Russell T Davies defends cutting Shakespeare texts
Writer behind BBC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream says he ditched line where character threatens to kill herself, calling it outdated
Rabbits hopping mad about hutches, says naturalist Chris Packham
BBC presenter says we should be constantly rethinking how we look after animals
Fully booked: this year’s best literary festivals
Go to Port Eliot to see Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Max Porter, and see debut crime novels pitted against the likes of Val McDermid in Harrogate
Hay festival: Shakespeare experts clash over whether to cut, or not to cut
Globe theatre’s chief and deputy head of RSC disagree over merits of editing Bard’s work to make it more relatable
Bookish things to do with children this summer
Summer is right around the corner and the UK is teaming with literary events and festivals. Whether you’d prefer to forage in the forest with the Gruffalo at Just So festival, or hear Melvin Burgess chat about Junk, there’s something for everyone
Modern tribes: the cerebral festival-goer
There’s a whole session asking if we’re actually fictional characters, and Raymond Blanc’s 25-course tasting banquet – that’s if it doesn’t clash with Charlotte Church
What’s happening in children’s books in 2016? A literary calendar
Want to know when your favourite author has a new book published? When the awards are being dished out? What film adaptations are up-coming or get the low-down on festivals near you? Then check out our literary calendar for 2016
Sandi Toksvig: trolls are already out over plans to form Women’s Equality party
Broadcaster, who is leaving the BBC, tells Hay festival she refuses to be deterred despite experiencing a great deal of abuse since announcing new political party