CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Fantastic gig last week at our lovely local Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham where my band Barnstormer 1649 supported the enduringly brilliant Men They Couldn’t Hang who have now served up 35 years of anthemic, stirring and thoroughly socialist and antifascist songs. Never more needed than today.
Our volunteer-run venue with its friendly and welcoming atmosphere is a fitting setting.
But two recent events give us a clear idea of the government’s attitude to popular culture both at local and national level.
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