GORDON PARSONS is bowled over by a skilfully stripped down and powerfully relevant production of Hamlet
No role model
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes a balanced assessment of Churchill’s imperialism that condemns both his language and actions as racist to the core
In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India
By Walter Reid
Hurst, £25
“THE saviour of his country,” “the greatest Englishman of our time,” as he has been variously described, Winston Churchill has also been denounced as a “racist and white supremacist.”
Distrusted by Tory colleagues, he has been described as a mercurial maverick, a charming but irresponsible chancer, a man of irrepressible vitality with only a limited element of focus.
No surprise that he has been much admired by Boris Johnson, then.
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