WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
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‘If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow’
BEN CHACKO recommends a pamphlet which lucidly separates the propaganda chaff from the grain of truth
FACT NOT FICTION: If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow
[Stop the War (Coalition)]
RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
PETER MASON is tickled by a new book and exhibition that mine the rotten anachronism of the monarchy for laughs
A Nazi zeppelin whodunnit, death amidst detoxification, a twistaholic’s delight, and noir fiction for criminals
STEVE JOHNSON salutes the mellifluous tones and clear-minded political message of a uniquely relevant Birmingham-born singer-songwriter
STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
Lies, Propaganda and the West’s War in Ukraine
by Chris Nineham
Stop the War, £5
BRITAIN’S peace movement is being silenced — though not, in the eyes of its enemies, comprehensively enough, as we saw with former Jeremy Corbyn aide Andrew Fisher’s plea to wind up the Stop the War Coalition this month.
There are various motivations for the unprecedented ban on Labour MPs questioning Nato, the dramatic increase in censorship of alternative narratives online and the (Morning Star excepted) wall-to-wall media support for fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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