GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
The art of Brexit
CHRIS MOSS pores over a stimulating and stirring collage of ideas and imagery generated by the 2016 referendum
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING: National Front office, in London, and campaigner (left), 1971 by Romano Cagnoni (1935-2018)
[Courtesy of Fondazione Romano Cagnoni]
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Leave to Remain: A Snapshot of Brexit
Noni Stacey, Lund Humphries, £35
WHAT are we to do with Brexit?
Whether you were for or against the ultimate decision, you can rest assured you were hoodwinked. The pro arguments were false, the anti case was non-existent. The cheats and liars who ushered the docile nation towards the exit are universally discredited. Yet here we are – with memories, confusions, anxieties and, let’s face it, a species of political fatigue mingled with melancholy. Being had is hard to bear.
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