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KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
Mollycoddling the Feckless by Alistair Findlay
Disappointing memoir evades pressing concerns of social work system
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
GREAT title, disappointing book.
Alistair Findlay’s irreverent memoirs of a 40-year career as a social worker in Scotland could have been so much better if he had built his discourse around the real-life personal stories of the many clients he encountered from the early 1970s onwards.
Instead, he has opted for an essentially dry approach, based around descriptions of departmental reorganisations and office politics, interspersed with small talk about works outings and football matches.
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