JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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Navigating the harrowing passage to freedom
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The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
The Mediterranean Wall
by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Pushkin Press, £14.99
THE most harmful myth fuelled by right-wing politicians manufacturing a “hostile environment” to prevent refugees reaching our shores is that the majority are “economic migrants.”
The populist message is clear: the experiences of these people do not obey legal definitions of persecution in their own countries and so are merely chancers gaming a leaky international system and, thereby, undeserving of refugee status.
Yet the reality is so complex — and the personal stories of migrants so diverse— as to render largely pointless definitions extrapolated so cynically from international laws that went out of date long ago.
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