GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue

Chris Searle speaks to British pianist ZOE RAHMAN

by Mike Jenkins

Statement from the executive committee of the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights

New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’

by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group

DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a pessimistic novel in which Hitler is removed from history, to little effect

A Cabinet clear-out and an apparent rejection of neoliberal orthodoxy have created fresh political momentum, but can entrenched institutional power be overcome by the new PM, wonders ANDREW MURRAY