HONORABLE TRADITION OF PROTEST: Junior doctors on a picket line outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital, as thousands go on strike in a dispute with the government over new contracts, January 2016
MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a timely and brilliantly performed antidote to racism in times of Jenrick-inflected jingoism
The bard weighs in to the BBC debate with the nine pints of Stella theory
MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Alpha, Park Avenue, The Running Man, and Left Handed Girl
ALEX HALL recommends a considered and clear approach to dismantling apartheid and occupation, were Israel to come to its senses
Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist and composer SOWETO KINCH
The Arctic in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reveals more about imperialism than about monsters, suggests MONICA GERMANA
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
Sam Wetherell, Head of Zeus, £25
USING Liverpool as a prism to reflect on the “unmaking” of Britain is a departure from most treatments of the city.
Liverpudlians have often represented themselves as apart from the nation, as internationalists and Atlanticists, as more Irish than English.
GEORGE FOGARTY is captivated by a brilliant one-man show depicting life in HMP Strangeways
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
As the UAE-backed RSF carries out drone strikes on humanitarian infrastructure in war-torn Sudan, the US sells more weapons to the UAE, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
