Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Images of inconsolable grief
MATT KERR suggests an exhibition that reflects the human cost of deaths in custody should picket every centre of state power in the UK

SoulsINQUEST
Platform, Glasgow
THE state isn’t generally shy about building memorials to the glorious dead.
In every town in the land we can find plaques, stone crosses signifying the vast loss of life in war through the years, and even in older workplaces you can still find some built to remember the waste of humanity if you look hard enough and they’ve been spared the wrecking ball.
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