MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Tales from the Front Line… and other stories
Virus of racism diagnosed in acute commentaries on pandemic
Tales from the Front Line… and other stories
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
TALAWA, one of Britain’s foremost black theatre companies, has produced a set of short films reflecting on a momentous year when the truth of the Windrush scandal was finally revealed, the Black Lives Matter movement exploded and black people have been found to be four times more likely to die from the Covid-19 epidemic than their white counterparts.
Based on verbatim interviews with those in the front line of the battle against Covid-19, Tales from the Front Line brings home a renewed and painful awareness of the inbred racism in British society.
The first of the two has a primary school teacher struggling to convey her responses to the lack of support for staff and students to the increasing health emergency.
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