MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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‘Raped for the state’
JAMIE JOHNSON recommends an ultimately depressing and haunting book that is a damning criticism of our society
Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London, where the Undercover Policing Inquiry are holding hearings looking at the activities of the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) between 1973 and 1982
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Deep Deception
by Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa and Naomi
Ebury, £20
WHEN police spy Mark Kennedy’s cover was blown by political activists in the winter of 2010, the corporate media were quick to follow the official line that he was the one bad apple who had gone rogue and spoiled their otherwise spotless image.
As part of his work he had deceived at least two women into intimate relationships.
Since then it has been proved that more than 20 spycops deliberately cheated at least 50 women into relationships.
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