The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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‘Like the candle that mocks the darkness’
Leon Rosselson’s song The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammed draws an illuminating parallel between nazi war crimes and Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, says Robert AH Cohen
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
A NAZI soldier smashes the head of Rivka, a seven-year-old girl wearing her new red dress in the Vilna ghetto in 1942.
An Israeli soldier fires a shell onto a Gaza beach and kills Mohammed, an 11-year-old boy playing football with his cousins in 2014.
In songwriter Leon Rosselson’s dream, Mohammed and Rivka take each other’s hand and “leave this world of war” together.
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