The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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‘If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow’
BEN CHACKO recommends a pamphlet which lucidly separates the propaganda chaff from the grain of truth
FACT NOT FICTION: If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow
[Stop the War (Coalition)]
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
Lies, Propaganda and the West’s War in Ukraine
by Chris Nineham
Stop the War, £5
BRITAIN’S peace movement is being silenced — though not, in the eyes of its enemies, comprehensively enough, as we saw with former Jeremy Corbyn aide Andrew Fisher’s plea to wind up the Stop the War Coalition this month.
There are various motivations for the unprecedented ban on Labour MPs questioning Nato, the dramatic increase in censorship of alternative narratives online and the (Morning Star excepted) wall-to-wall media support for fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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