MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
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Last words on two scourges of the Establishment
A tribute to Bob Crow, by ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
by Marwa Paikan
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
Got an email from the producer of BBC Radio Four's obituary programme The Last Word the other day, asking me to write a tribute to Bob Crow, so I did.
Now you'd think that if you commission a left-wing political poet to eulogise a great radical trade union leader you'd kind of know what you're going to get, wouldn't you?
In these timid times, it seems not.
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