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Cinema / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025

LEO BOIX, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Dreamers, It Was Just An Accident, Folktales, and Eternity

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Film of the week / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends an intimate portrait of Jacinda Ardern, only the second prime minister to give birth while holding office

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Book Review / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state

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Book Review / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

HENRY BELL is sceptical of the notion that ‘progress’ is an ideology that the ruling class uses exclusively to camouflage appropriation

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Books / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a coherent and radical call to arms against the failed model of networked neoliberal capitalism 

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Book Review / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution

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21st Century Poetry / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

JENNY MITCHELL, poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, introduces her priorities, and her first selection

21st Century Poetry / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

by Imasha Costa

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Book Review / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

JOHN GREEN is intrigued by the ethereal, ghostly quality of images of a London unobscured by the bustle of humanity

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Music Review / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

WILL STONE witnesses an experimental piano concerto inspired by the work of a young Jewish victim of the Nazis

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Book Review / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

JENNY FARRELL relishes an outstanding Palestinian novel that immerses readers in the sensory reality of Gaza, then and now

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Book Reviews / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

AI-induced murder, last rites for the mob-dog, a gullible common herd, and an exemplary Christmas chiller