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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Jo Bell - Hoary Alison
Edited by JODY PORTER
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
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Berteroa incana
Precision has no gallantry. The texts call her
medium, hairy annual, grey with hairs,
untoothed, sometimes obscurely toothed.
She’s an extremely common weed; often found
on road and railways, docks. Our heroine
is casual of waste ground, docks, rubbish heaps, etc.
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