CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Dethroned by the Sex Pistols 40 years ago, The Doctors of Madness make a spectacular, triumphant return
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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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
THIS week I am devoting this entire column to my album of the year. Yes, I know it’s September but nothing will touch it. I am certain of that.
For the first time in our history the far right are chanting the name of the current prime minister, egged on by the Sun, Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph and Spectator.
The threat of a no-deal Brexit leaves us on the verge of economic turmoil unseen since the second world war.
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