MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion

New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott

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