MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Christine Keeler was pilloried by the Establishment and the tabloids but a new exhibition salvages her tarnished reputation in a telling commentary on class, male power and sexual politics, says JAN WOOLF
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
Dear Christine
Vane
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
AS A 13-year-old delivering newspapers in a Surrey village, I read about Christine Keeler on my paper round, gaining rudimentary political education comparing redtop and broadsheet headlines.
With that long lustrous hair, I thought Keeler beautiful and was intrigued that she’d had sex with a Russian.
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