GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Attila the Stockbroker Diary
Rejuvenated by a month of touring and seeing a local council give a bloody nose to developers with grotesque plans comes the disappointment of the Seagulls manager taking the yankee dollar
Graham Potter looks for patures new
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
TODAY’S column comes live from Leeds, where I’ve just done a poetry set on the CWU posties’ picket line and enjoyed delicious drizzle cake for breakfast in the equally drizzling rain.
Solidarity with every striking worker – let’s have co-ordinated action to kick out this brutal, incompetent and unwanted government, with the unelected (bar 140,000 Tory dinosaurs) Truss at the helm now the most right wing in modern British history.
Had a cracking “piss up in a brewery” gig (specifically the Horsforth Brewery) last night with my band; tonight we’re in Middlesbrough and tomorrow another brewery piss up at the Angel Brewery in Nottingham. Which proves, conclusively, that unlike this chaotic, heartless government, I can indeed organise the aforementioned.
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