CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Brighton Pride: yes, Kylie Minogue: no
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
THIS weekend I am always especially proud of my home city, because it’s Brighton Pride.
It’s great to showcase our inclusive, cosmopolitan, welcoming city to an increasingly intolerant world: such shows of unity are incredibly important.
I’m very proud of my football team too, because Brighton & Hove Albion have stood in the vanguard of the Football v Homophobia campaign for many years now.
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