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Books / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025

PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK

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Books / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025

GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes, and recommends a a candid, evidence-based record of Britain’s role in the slaughter visited by Israel upon the Palestinians

21st Century Poetry / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025

by Donna Irving

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Books / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change

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Books / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book

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Book Review / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

PAUL BUHLE an RAYMOND TYLER enjoy an issue of the radical comic WW3 that gives a platform to Palestinian artists, and uncensored commentary

THRILLINGLY VITAL: Chris T-T performs at the 100 Club [Pic: James Walsh]
Gig Review / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

JAMES WALSH wallows in the triumphant reappearance behind the mic of former Morning Star columnist Chris T-T

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TV Network Monitor / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

The new corporate version of Robin Hood is a betrayal of the anti-colonial hero of the people of yore, suggests DENNIS BROE

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Literature / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

A mesmerising novel by Mexican Daniel Saldana Paris, and fierce poetry by Peruvian Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod, and Jonathan Gonzalez

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Global Routes / 17 November 2025
17 November 2025

TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legenary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI

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Album Reviews / 17 November 2025
17 November 2025
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Opinion / 14 November 2025
14 November 2025

GWYNETH PEATY and KATIE ELLIS draw attention to the long history of horror films that demonise disability