EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Why we've got every right to be annoyed
Protest without the ability to cause safe and temporary disruption is not real protest at all
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
IF PATEL’S Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill banning “annoying demonstrations” had come into force in 1976, I’d surely have gone to jail by now, given the amount of gigs I’ve done on the backs of slow-moving or stationary lorries, hastily erected stages or quite simply in the middle of the road.
This Bill, now law, is an attack on our basic human rights. There won’t be real protest at all but state-sanctioned, sanitised cosmetics.
It is a pre-local election sop to the servile, cap-doffing gerontocracy which is England — not Britain — in 2021. It is “protecting” inert bits of stone and flags while ignoring living, breathing women, ethnic minorities, the poor, the vulnerable and, above all, the young.
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