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James Walsh
comedy
Comedy / 12 May 2025
Differently abled comedians
12 May 2025

JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones

migrants
Exhibition Review / 9 May 2025
A compelling insight into migrants’ experience
9 May 2025

JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media

ONE TO WATCH: Alvin Liu
Send in the clowns / 8 April 2024
‘The house of commons is a posh white peoples’ rap battle’
8 April 2024
JAMES WALSH applauds the observations of a new Chinese master of stand-up 
The Metropolitan Police deploying the use of live facial rec
Book Review / 21 March 2024
New tools of oppression
21 March 2024
JAMES WALSH is appalled by the implications of introducing AI to the workplace 
BJORK-ESQUE ELFIN ALIEN: Julia Masli
Bring on the Clowns / 9 February 2024
The best medicine
9 February 2024
JAMES WALSH is therapeutically disrobed by a disarmingly attentive exploration of harsh truths and nonsense
END TIMES: Jim Bob plays Brighton
Concert review / 23 November 2023
Bob’s grebo afterlife
23 November 2023
JAMES WALSH enthuses over the evidence that the tunes are even better after the unstoppable sex machine
STAR-STRUCK: Miki from Lush meets Walsh from Star
Festival review / 10 August 2023
Far flung
10 August 2023
JAMES WALSH happily maroons himself at possibly the most-difficult-to-get-to festival in Britain
Half Man Half Biscuit in 2015
Music review / 23 January 2023
Take the biscuit
23 January 2023
JAMES WALSH savours the genius of Britain’s greatest living songwriter
(L to R) Charlie Vero-Martin and Nish Kumar
Culture / 27 December 2022
2022 comedy highlights with JAMES WALSH
27 December 2022
Neil Hannon at the Barbican aided by an orchestra and some v
Music Review / 2 September 2022
A memory lane like no other
2 September 2022
Neil Hannon songwritting has withstood admirably the often cruel passage of time, writes JAMES WALSH
Charlie Vero-Martin with Mr Basketcase
Comedy Review / 15 August 2022
Send in the Clowns with James Walsh: August 15, 2022
15 August 2022
The Fringe, in its current form, is unsustainable as it means selling one of your more important organs to pay the greedy landlords
INSPIRED BULLSHIT: Julia Masli in 2019
Comedy Review / 5 August 2022
Laughter, the spice of Edinburgh Fringe
5 August 2022
A FIELD OF HER OWN: Esther Manito
Comedy Review / 19 July 2022
Laugh a minute under the stars
19 July 2022
MODERN-CHAPLIN EXPLORATIONS: Julia Masli
Comedy Review / 22 June 2022
Celebrating 'the outcasts, the buffoons, the banished'
22 June 2022
Sharlin Jahan on stage
Comedy Review / 14 June 2022
Asian championing comedy night brings the sauce
14 June 2022
JAMES WALSH has his expectations unceremoniously brushed aside by an assorted bunch of inspired wits