‘It feels a dark kind of summer, in which prejudice is dressed in fuchsia and the political class shrug their shoulders while the angry mob grows. We... Continue reading
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A prosepoem by Maria de Stefano Monteleone is a small agricultural hilltop town in the region of Puglia in southern Italy. During WW2 most of its men... Continue reading
By Dennis Broe The Netflix series Marked begins with a bang, an armoured car robbery from the point of view of the female driver Babalwa who eludes... Continue reading
it is 1985 and you’re 19 at Wembley dogsdrinking Hofmeister from a brown plastic bottleafter a shift answering phones at the mini-cab officeand there’s a hurdle race... Continue reading
Symbol of Hope, by Sliman Mansour Yahia Lababidi presents the Introduction to his new book of poetry, Palestine Wail, together with a poem from the book INTRODUCTION:... Continue reading
A mosque destroyed in the Jabalia area of the Gaza Strip. Commons image by Jaber Jehad Badwan By Richard Penderyn Last year a letter I co-authored on... Continue reading
By David Erdos Peeling pensioners from the streets as policemenLaugh at them was part of the protests in London today,Yesterday and a prime example of where and... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell In 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony, basing it on five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko that provide its textual and thematic basis. In... Continue reading
By Alan McGuire In the history of British classical music, few figures embody a commitment to working-class culture like Alan Bush. Composer, teacher, Marxist, and advocate for... Continue reading
Ayalon prison by Nick Moss What struck me most … was how seemingly highly cultured government officials and civil servants, when faced with extremities of conscience and... Continue reading
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