MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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(L) Keira Knightly in Black Doves; (R) Olaf Lubaszenko in Justice
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
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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
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