GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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Dynamic Waging
by Ross Wilson
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
Essential workers are retiring early
due to dynamic waging
when wages increase on the demand
put upon key workers during busy shifts.
So Morag, a thirty-three-year-auld
Healthcare Support Worker last year
is now a thirty-four-year-auld millionaire
retired to a villa in Andalucía.
‘Ivrytime a patient buzzed
or a nurse asked, ye busy?
the k-ching o’ a till
rang like a bell in ma heid.’
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