MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Round-up 2016: Attila the Stockbroker
Star columnists run through what’s impressed them this year
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
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
REVIEW of the year? Well, it gets a worse one from me than I’d give to a Coldplay box set with guest appearances from Phil Collins, Boris Johnson and the Crystal Palace first team — which is saying something.
I am by nature a cheerful, optimistic person but this year my resilience has been tested like never before. Good riddance, 2016. Go and boil your bottom.
There was the steady rise of the xenophobic far-right in Europe — why does the liberal media keep talking up Marine Le Pen? — and the “election” as US President of a misogynistic, unstable bully who surged into office with two-and-a-half million fewer votes than his opponent, a Wall Street warmonger.
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