GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Bad news, good news
A week marred by class injustice in the Banana Republic of Britain is to be followed by the joy of playing live again
BAD NEWS: Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall with Andy Burnham (right), Mayor of Greater Manchester and Steve Rotheram, Mayor of Liverpool City Region, speak to the media outside the Anfield stadium
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
I HAVE to start my column this week with a howl of rage at naked class injustice.
In an utterly “contributory negligence” moment, a judge ruled that South Yorkshire police officers have no case to answer in the Hillsborough cover-up trial because the altered police statements were prepared for the Taylor inquiry, which was not a statutory public inquiry but an “administrative exercise.”
In my many visits to see Brighton play Sheffield Wednesday over the years, I have entered the away fans’ enclosure at the Leppings Lane end of the ground thinking about the unspeakable events of that day and hoping against hope that eventually, somehow, justice would prevail.
Similar stories
Warming up for his Durham gig, the bard pays attention to the niceties of language
The bard heralds the festive summer
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases
A rare trip down the beer-sodden alleys of memory lane reminds the bard of Puppy Love