Yesterday, The Bookseller reported that 66 managers had left the British book giant Waterstone’s last week “as part of its management restructure, with a number declining to go through the… Read more »

Yesterday, parent companies Bertelsmann and Pearson closed the merger of Random House and Penguin, ending our long national nightmare and creating one big fucking publishing house. The new venture will… Read more »

On Friday, Granta’s online editor, Ted Hodgkinson, announced via Twitter that he was leaving the company to join the British Council. Hodgkinson had been at Granta for the last three… Read more »

Two weeks ago, over 1,000 staffers at two German Amazon warehouses walked off the job in a one-day work stoppage. On Monday, hundreds of workers staged another short-term strike, as their demand… Read more »

In the continuing losing battle to save England’s local libraries, it’s been announced that Manchester will most likely lose six of its libraries within weeks, if the council’s proposed cuts… Read more »

At an event on Wednesday at the British Museum, Culture Secretary Maria Miller addressed the heads of British arts organisations with a speech entitled,  ‘Testing Times: Fighting culture’s corner in… Read more »

Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, died yesterday at the age of 87. Over the course of her 11 year reign, Thatcher sold every government asset that… Read more »

As Tony Hall settles in to his new job as Director General of the BBC, he should have two things on his mind: placing arts programing at the centre of… Read more »

As budgets for libraries have shrunk, communities are starting to look to new ways to keep the doors open. In the UK, they’re turning to “social enterprise” companies, according to an… Read more »