EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
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.
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