JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual
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Reduced to This
by Andrew Nickson
Protesters on the Embankment during a pro-Palestine march in central London, to call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. December 9, 2023.
TONY BURKE reviews new releases from Cheikh Lo, Mishra & Deepa Shakthi, N’Faly Kouyate
Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade, posits DAN O’BRIEN
ANDY HEDGECOCK sees his scepticism lessened by a story is more complex and far-reaching than is initially apparent
MARK TURNER holds on tight for a mesmerising display of Neath-born ragtime virtuosity
ALAN MORRISON introduces a UK poet whose despised daytime occupation provides the subject for his writing
Look at me, reduced to chanting
“Ceasefire now”
with hundreds through Soho Hill
where Kathryn Dayus’ mum and sister were killed
in the blitz in Birmingham in 1941.
Look at me, reduced to holding my placard
saying “Free Palestine”
while sheepish sullen shoppers
gawp at us as they hurry home
to Mrs Brown’s Boys and Love Island.
Look at me, reduced to writing a letter
to my MP McCabe
asking why on earth he said at our Labour Party meeting
that the BBC is a Hamas mouthpiece.
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