CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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There are plenty of radical cultural events out there to support in the next few weeks
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
THERE is something totally surreal about doing a column about a life as a travelling performance poet and musician when the country is going through its biggest constitutional upheaval since the civil war.
Especially so writing this on the day following Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament, approved by the Queen.
Such an order, enacted by a constitutional figurehead on behalf of a prime minister with no popular mandate, has no more historical legitimacy than it did in 1642.
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