GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Christopher Norris - Budget Day, July 8th, 2015
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DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Budget Day, July 8th, 2015
Chris Norris
Elsewhere the last few life-hopes fade and die.
It’s all there in your red attaché-case.
For now’s your glory-day, so hold it high.
Just please the fat cats and the CBI
And you’ll have no more conscience-calls to face.
Elsewhere the last few life-hopes fade and die.
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