CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Beware the lager lemmings
The pubs may be reopening but chances are they'll be rammed with Covid deniers
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
SO, SATURDAY is Independence Day, right? The pandemic’s over — let’s all go to the pub!
“Boris” says it’s OK, so it must be! No. His name’s Johnson, American slang for knob and it’s not OK. This government’s record is beyond abysmal and I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. Which isn’t far at all right now: they’re greedy bastards and I’ve got a dodgy shoulder.
When I do go to the pub it won’t be indoors and it certainly won’t be today, National Get Paralytic And Throw Up All Over Yourself And The Person Next To You Cos The Tories Say You Can Day.
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