CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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There’s nothing wrong with newspapers, as long as they print news, not reactionary garbage
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
AS I write this, the front page of the Sun — that festering toilet accessory, that utter waste of trees certainly not worthy of the designation “newspaper” — has a “story” purporting to be a “scandal” about Jeremy Corbyn and a “commie spy.”
This sums up everything that is wrong with the right-wing tabloid press in this country and the deep divisions in our society it still has the capacity to foster, despite its slow death at the hands of social media.
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Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family