Appreciation Appreciation ‘The traditions of the labour movement were inadequate to take the struggle further’ LYNNE WALSH celebrates the prescient political dramas of Trevor Griffiths, playwright, screenwriter and Marxist, born April 4 1935; died March 29 2024
Features | Friday 08th Mar 2024 International Women's Day 2024 Sexism – ‘it’s suffocating and exhausting’
Theatre review Tuesday 27th Feb 2024 Theatre review Exuberant anti-fascist musical LYNNE WALSH applauds an exceptional piece of theatre that pits the BUF against the heroes of Cable Street
Interview Tuesday 13th Feb 2024 Interview Celebrating Cable Street LYNNE WALSH interviews writer Alex Kanefsky and designer Yoav Segal about their new musical, Cable Street
Saturday 10th Feb 2024 Remembering Dave Lewis: core member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners LYNNE WALSH pays tribute to a brilliant organiser and fearless campaigner, who died last month aged 64
Tuesday 21st Nov 2023 Neoliberal hell for women LYNNE WALSH reports from a conference exposing the reality for women caught up in the porn industry, where rape, torture, degradation and fear are the norm – and where victims are told this is ‘liberating’
Friday 02nd Jun 2023 A window on prostitution LYNNE WALSH reports from the launch of a new film on the sex industry, but warns of discomfort over a focus on the stories of male ‘sex buyers’, rather than female victims
Wednesday 08th Mar 2023 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023 Poverty, wonder-working and turnips With the cost-of-living crisis showing no signs of abating, LYNNE WALSH talks to women about their experiences with foodbanks and ‘managing finances’ – and discovers some pathbreaking work on poverty being carried out by the Smallwood Trust
Wednesday 18th Jan 2023 Help to die? Or help to live? With Parliament currently consulting the public on assisted suicide policy, LYNNE WALSH explores the issues and talks to a disability rights activist who warns of troubling stereotypes of disabled people distorting the debate
Exhibition Monday 11th Apr 2022 Exhibition Postwar Modern: a lovingly created show with touches of the sublime LYNNE WALSH is thrilled by an exhibition of post-war British art
Book Review Monday 11th Apr 2022 Book Review Uncontrollable Women LYNNE WALSH says a powerful book by Nan Sloane is a keeper that will reward reading and rereading
Theatre Review Monday 21st Mar 2022 Theatre Review ‘Come with us, run with us, we’re gonna change the world’ LYNNE WALSH recommends an uplifting musical narrative of Glasgow shipyards’ struggles past that is perfectly fit for the challenges of today