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As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
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Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
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IT ALL started when my friends Jenny and Jon took their five-year-old twins, Polly and Freddie, to see the Robin Hood pantomime at the Milton Keynes Theatre in the week before Christmas.
They thought hard about the dangers of Covid, they even asked my advice, but they had both had two jabs and a booster and they guessed the theatre would be encouraging masks and social spacing.
On balance they thought the cultural benefits to the twins outweighed the risks. Who doesn’t love a pantomime?
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PAUL FOLEY picks out an excellent example of theatre devised to start conversations about identity, class and belonging