The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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A portrait of a grotesque local government
An eye-opening, breath-taking and damning indictment of the divisions that rend this country, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE
JUSTICE DELAYED: On the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14 2018 protesters demand justice for its victims
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
One Kensington: Food Halls, Food Banks and Grenfell: Inside the Most Unequal Borough in Britain
by Emma Dent Coad
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IF THE politics of inequality in contemporary Britain are shaped by decisions made in Parliament, it is at the local level that policy choices weave the resulting fabric of injustice.
Local authorities represent the trenches in which the haves resist the advances of the have nots in a grinding attrition of class warfare, where the most petty but also the most tragic decisions affecting lives are made.
A textbook battlefield that has claimed its fair share of victims in Britain’s class struggle — not least the avoidable deaths at Grenfell Tower — is Kensington and Chelsea, a London borough routinely described as the most unequal in the country.
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