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Exhibition Review / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media

ONE TO WATCH: Alvin Liu
Send in the clowns / 8 April 2024
8 April 2024
JAMES WALSH applauds the observations of a new Chinese master of stand-up 
The Metropolitan Police deploying the use of live facial rec
Book Review / 21 March 2024
21 March 2024
JAMES WALSH is appalled by the implications of introducing AI to the workplace 
BJORK-ESQUE ELFIN ALIEN: Julia Masli
Bring on the Clowns / 9 February 2024
9 February 2024
JAMES WALSH is therapeutically disrobed by a disarmingly attentive exploration of harsh truths and nonsense
END TIMES: Jim Bob plays Brighton
Concert review / 23 November 2023
23 November 2023
JAMES WALSH enthuses over the evidence that the tunes are even better after the unstoppable sex machine
STAR-STRUCK: Miki from Lush meets Walsh from Star
Festival review / 10 August 2023
10 August 2023
JAMES WALSH happily maroons himself at possibly the most-difficult-to-get-to festival in Britain
Half Man Half Biscuit in 2015
Music review / 23 January 2023
23 January 2023
JAMES WALSH savours the genius of Britain’s greatest living songwriter
(L to R) Charlie Vero-Martin and Nish Kumar
Culture / 27 December 2022
27 December 2022
Neil Hannon at the Barbican aided by an orchestra and some v
Music Review / 2 September 2022
2 September 2022
Neil Hannon songwritting has withstood admirably the often cruel passage of time, writes JAMES WALSH
Charlie Vero-Martin with Mr Basketcase
Comedy Review / 15 August 2022
15 August 2022
The Fringe, in its current form, is unsustainable as it means selling one of your more important organs to pay the greedy landlords
INSPIRED BULLSHIT: Julia Masli in 2019
Comedy Review / 5 August 2022
5 August 2022
A FIELD OF HER OWN: Esther Manito
Comedy Review / 19 July 2022
19 July 2022