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haftar
Books / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

BOB NEWLAND doubts the political credentials, but praises the description of the impossible bind of a UN mediator in Libya in the era of Trump

2000
Cinema / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Savages, The Legend of Ochi, and The Naked Gun

shift
Film of the week / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

ANGUS REID is bowled over by a cinematic masterpiece that examines the labour of nursing in forensic, dramatic detail

21st Century Poetry / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

by Yvonne Reddick

winters tale
Theatre review / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy

radcliffe
Interview / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe

cabbage
Send in the clowns / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

JAMES WALSH takes advantage of an evening of comedy snippets to pick out which clowns will make it in Edinburgh

nauti nauti
Decoding Network TV / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

DENNIS BROE enjoys the political edge of a series that unmasks British imperialism, resonates with the present and has been buried by Disney

BRIXTON
Theatre review / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

MAYER WAKEFIELD is swept up by the tale of the south London venue where music forged alliances across race, class and identity

unforgivable
TV review / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family

IS
Album reviews / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi

wetleg
Music review / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

WILL STONE relishes the chance to hear the Isle of Wight indie sensation in an intimate setting