STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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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
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
“WHY can’t life still be hilarious?” asks Greg Freeman in Marples Must Go! (Vole, £10). Looking back on a 1960s childhood — the Dandy and the Beano, school milk monitors, Space Patrol, The Flowerpot Men, Juke Box Jury — Freeman cannot help but make gloomy comparisons with the present.
These days the Bash Street School is an academy, Desperate Dan has diabetes, Plug has lost both legs in Afghanistan and Walter the Softy has won the Forward prize for poetry.
The book takes its title from a slogan painted on the M1 about the Tory transport minister in the 1960s who opened the first motorways and closed 4,000 miles of railway lines: “And go he did,/after getting his peerage, flitting/on the night ferry to Monaco/to escape a huge tax bill. He’s history,/just another perverse politician/putting his foot down on our road to ruin.”
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