MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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What Transformation?
WILL PODMORE appreciates a lucid re-telling of the story of the past decade of Tory rule
Demonstration at Conservative Party Conference 2017, Liverpool Road, Manchester
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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
The Conservative Party after Brexit: turmoil and transformation
by Tim Bale, Polity Press, £25.00
THIS is a thrilling, fascinating and revealing account of one of the wildest rides in British history. Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, is an excellent political historian and analyst.
Brexit got rid of one Conservative prime minister at once — David Cameron — then another, punishingly slowly — Theresa May.
Bale has three brilliant chapters on May’s premiership — her brief pomp, the nemesis swiftly following, and then “a bad hand played badly.”
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