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Christopher Norris - Budget Day, July 8th, 2015
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Budget Day, July 8th, 2015
Chris Norris
Elsewhere the last few life-hopes fade and die.
It’s all there in your red attaché-case.
For now’s your glory-day, so hold it high.
Just please the fat cats and the CBI
And you’ll have no more conscience-calls to face.
Elsewhere the last few life-hopes fade and die.
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