The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan
Class discrimination and the arts
VANESSA CORBY asks what will the arts do for everyday working people?
ON the morning of July 5, Keir Starmer and his supporters celebrated Labour’s election victory in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern, bathed in the glow of a huge red wall behind.
Hard on the heels of the culture wars of the Conservative election campaign and its “rip-off degrees” rhetoric, this iconic start felt like stepping into a parallel universe.
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