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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
Carol Ann Dunn - They’ll Never Walk Alone
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
They’ll Never Walk Alone
Carol Ann Dunn
The fans had come to Sheffield
To see their idols play,
Their chants were loud but happy
On that fatal April day.
The fans were all excited,
convinced their team would win;
Police had packed them tighter
And ever tighter in.
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