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DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief
Homo erectus, here I come
Thanks to the brilliant Isolation Festival, I'm now a fully qualified tech neanderthal and ready to rise to the next online evolutionary challenge
MIK SABIERS raises a glass of Lambrini to commentary, diatribes, punk rock riffs, some pontification and a whole lot of fun
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge
SUSAN DARLINGTON laments a version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes that is unable to solve its own problems
New releases from The Thumping Tommys, Dan O’Farrell and The Difference Engine, and Sean Taylor
For his study of anti-Muslim Muzaffarnagar Riot, HENRY BELL applauds Joe Sacco for a devastatingly effective combination of graphic novel and investigative journalism
HUGE congratulations to organisers Joe Solo, Pete Yen and Matt Hill for the brilliant We Shall Overcome Isolation Festival, broadcast online on Facebook Live for 12 hours last Saturday.
It reached tens of thousands of people, introduced us all to many wonderful performers we had never seen before and, at the time of writing, has raised over £26,600 for Pauline Town’s initiative to help the homeless in Ashton-under-Lyne.
And it helped me reach hitherto unknown reaches of the internet stratosphere — to boldly go where this old punk rocker had never gone before.
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