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Book Review / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
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Exhibition review / 20 February 2025
20 February 2025
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
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Culture / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
Two books and a film that examine cultural excavation and the impact of place on behaviour
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Short Fiction / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
ANDY HEDGECOCK invites readers to contribute short fiction to our arts pages, offers some guidance and picks a few favourites
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Opinion / 5 April 2024
5 April 2024
ANDY HEDGECOCK explores the implications of a recent statistical study of music lyrics that highlights the role of monopoly capital in silencing complexity
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Books / 7 December 2023
7 December 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK is compelled by a novel that challenges the assumption that atomic science is pure, objective and politically neutral
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Books / 24 November 2023
24 November 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in an open-minded exploration of music that provokes reflection on the determinants of musical taste 
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Book Review / 18 June 2023
18 June 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK takes apart a dispiriting book that is mired in free market conservatism
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Book Review / 19 January 2023
19 January 2023
ANDY HEDGECOCK suspects that artificial intelligence cannot imagine socialism
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Book Review / 6 December 2022
6 December 2022
Weird, funny and ominous by turns, it is always original and always specific, a fine collection of stories, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
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Literature / 25 October 2022
25 October 2022
This is a symbolic autopsy of 21st century Britain – the Britain of our own corner of the multiverse, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
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Book Review / 12 August 2022
12 August 2022
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book which is the perfect starting point for those with an interest in the possibilities of immersive technology
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Photography / 17 May 2022
17 May 2022
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Culture / 7 December 2021
7 December 2021
From poets John Cooper Clarke and Mike Garry to Jackson Browne, the magnificent Paula Rego the nail-biting, futuristic Kevin Core radio drama: Welcome to MedPatch and The American Way anthology, edited by Orsola Casagrande and Ra Page, which tackles 20 examples of US belligerence
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Interview / 10 November 2021
10 November 2021
Andy Hedgecock talks to SARAH SCHOFIELD about her fiction collection, Safely Gathered In
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Book Review / 19 August 2021
19 August 2021
Kenneth Payne's book chillingly demonstrates how the military use of Artificial Intelligence weapons is becoming ever more dangerous, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
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GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY / 17 May 2021
17 May 2021
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a new take on the great Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel
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FICTION / 10 May 2021
10 May 2021
Real and abstract revulsion compelling themes of dread-zone anthology
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INTERVIEW / 17 February 2021
17 February 2021
Novelist CHRISTOPHER PRIEST talks to Andy Hedgecock about his latest novel, set in an otherworldly archipelago where thousands of islands offer endless climactic, cultural and political possibilities
THE STRUGGLE CONTUINUES: ‘La beauté est dans la rue’ (B
BOOKS / 10 February 2021
10 February 2021
Critique of communicating radical politics flies in the face of progressive reason
Best of 2020 / 9 December 2020
9 December 2020
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FILM ONLINE / 25 August 2020
25 August 2020
Compelling exploration of the mysteries of human existence
FICTION / 21 April 2020
21 April 2020
Want to see your name in print? Now's your chance... ANDY HEDGECOCK explains how you can do it in this guide to writing 'flash fiction' and how you can submit your work to the Morning Star
PIC PERVERTER OF JUSTICE?  ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Benso
BOOKS / 20 April 2020
20 April 2020
ANDY HEDGECOK recommends a forensic examination of the ICC's response to Israel's attack on an aid convoy to Gaza in 2010
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INTERVIEW / 1 March 2020
1 March 2020
STEPHEN TRINDER talks to Andy Hedgecock about why there's little radical vision in science-fiction cinema
PIC CAP SYMPHONIC Alasdair Gray’s ceiling at Oran Mor Pic:
Obituary: / 6 January 2020
6 January 2020
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Culture / 28 November 2019
28 November 2019
Kismet Robot
Books / 17 November 2019
17 November 2019
How should the left face up to the ubiquitous challenges of new technologies in the age of robotics, artificial intelligence and big data? ANDY HEDGECOCK reviews two books attempting some answers
PIC CAP Diners in denial: Luis Bunuel’s The Discrete Charm
Book Review / 14 October 2019
14 October 2019
Acute interrogation of how social perceptions, values and beliefs influence economic behaviour
Culture / 13 August 2019
13 August 2019
It’s the left-wing activism of Jeff Nuttall where inspiration can be drawn from, writes ANDY HEDGECOCK
PIC CAP: Moments from a massacre: Still from Mike Leigh’s
Book Review / 19 July 2019
19 July 2019
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a revelatory new history of the Peterloo Massacre
REBEL FOOTPRINT: The Savoy Hotel, site of the palace destroy
Book Review / 8 July 2019
8 July 2019
New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London
PIC CAP Catch them young: an iPhone addict Pic: Andi Graff/W
Book Review / 7 May 2019
7 May 2019
A new book on profiling reveals just how far down the road to a Big Brother society we've gone, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
PIC CAP Lifting the lid: Lisa Blower
Fiction Review / 8 April 2019
8 April 2019
Short stories give voice to the underclass judged inarticulate by the literary establishment
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Book Review / 25 March 2019
25 March 2019
A timely and entertaining read on the history and development of the ‘beautiful game’
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Culture / 4 March 2019
4 March 2019
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a challenge to conventional thinking on a socialist planned economy