To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Trashfuture
Backyard Comedy Club
https://www.trashfuture.co.uk
I AM in the only room left in Britain where the mention of Matt Hancock gets a cheer.
I’m not at a masochistic Tory fringe event, or at the disastrous former minister’s birthday party. Instead, I’m at a sold out live recording of a left-wing podcast, with many thousands more primed to listen online.
Trashfuture’s preposterous, ironic love of “human labrador” Matt Hancock is one of the many in-jokes that makes it feel like a community or club, the secret of all successful gangs.
SCOTT ALSWORTH recommends a film that is as informative as it is rage inducing
JAN WOLF enjoys a British revival of the 1972 come of age farce/panto Pippin
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
TOM STONE checks the political coordinates of a festival where the pleasures of nostalgia were (sometimes) harnessed to a new message


