EWAN KOTZ got to the Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool only to be taken by strong songwriting of the emerging all-women Lime Garden
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Knock-about political farce
Anyone expecting the wit and sophisticated satire of a Yes, Minister will be disappointed, writes MICHAEL STEWART
Charlie Baker as Tony ‘Tone’ Blair
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JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Blue Trail, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Colours of Time, Glenrothan
CHRIS SEARLE on Mike Westbrook who died aged 90
STEVE JOHNSON speaks to JIM MORAY about an album that marks 25 years since his first
DENNIS BROE observes how cutbacks, mergers and AI create content detached from both reality and history itself
TONY! The Tony Blair Rock Opera
Park Theatre, London
D-REAM’S song Things Can Only Get Better announced the arrival of Tony Blair’s shiny New Labour party, but unfortunately things got worse.
Blair’s reign was great to begin with but with the “dodgy dossier” of supposed weapons of mass destruction and mass lying instead, his prime ministership ended in disgrace.
Tony! (complete with warning exclamation mark) a rock musical comedy by Harry Hill and Steve Brown charts the rise and descent into dodginess of Labour’s most successful PM.
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