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GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Singing aloud for Brighton and good causes
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
MOST cliches have a basis in fact and the one which says that people in the north of England are more extrovert and friendly than those in the south may well have an element of truth in it, although if it is the case, as a loud and mouthy southerner, I’m one of the exceptions.
Whatever the merits of that observation, I certainly received a lovely welcome everywhere I went last week.
The gigs were planned around Brighton’s first league game at Old Trafford since 1983 and what an occasion that turned out to be. More of that in a moment.
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