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SETTING A PRECEDENT: Conversion on the Way to Damascus (St Paul), 1601, by Caravaggio
Books / 26 April 2026
26 April 2026

STEVEN ANDREW praises a beautifully written and enjoyable read

NOT ALL IT SEEMS: A general view of main generator 1, at the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffolk.
Books / 26 April 2026
26 April 2026

ROGER McKENZIE suggest this book is used as a resource to help spark resistance to the rise of nuclear power

RAW DEAL: Over-age destroyers turned over to Britain, at a Canadian port in September 1940 in exchange for naval and air bases. The UK made its final Lend-Lease repayment to the US in December 2006 - the total loan was for £2.2 billion (equivalent to £45.74 billion in 2025)  / Pic: National Archives and Records Administration/CC
Books / 26 April 2026
26 April 2026

The allies of the US, like our own country, end up dominated and cowed, concludes ALEX HALL

LABOUR TURNS A DEAF EAR: Protest against raw sewage release on the beach in St Leonards, Sussex
Books / 26 April 2026
26 April 2026

LYNDA GRAHAM looks at how successive government allowed the water companies take us all for a ride

Captivating / Pic: Kirsten Mcternan
Opera review / 24 April 2026
24 April 2026

DAVID NICHOLSON relies on 10-year-old SKYLAR and nine-year-old BEHATI’s insights when recommending this pirate cum sea monsters romp

Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn (Uninhabited Summer Houses) / Pic: Attila the Stockbroker
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 24 April 2026
24 April 2026

Read my lips: Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn (Uninhabited Summer Houses), Rethink Everything

 Drawings: Mazen Kerbaj
Books / 24 April 2026
24 April 2026

In the interventionist spirit of of Atelier Populaire Mazen Kerbaj Gaza in My Phone ‘notebook’ deeply touches JAMIE BRITTON

DOWN BESIDE THE SEA: Leonardo McCorkindale, Jarrod McWilliams, Callum Mann and Matthew Potulski / Pic: Johan Persson
Dance / 24 April 2026
24 April 2026

SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys an imaginative revival of the dance classic

NO LAUGHING MATTER: (L to R) LJ Parkinson as Givola, Mark Gatiss as Arturo Ui and Mawaan Rizwan as Giri in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Theatre review / 23 April 2026
23 April 2026

GORDON PARSONS salutes the apt return of Brecht’s vaudevillian cartoon drama that retains the vitality of the boxing or the circus ring

Jaafar Jackson in Michael (2026) / Pic: IMDb
Cinema / 23 April 2026
23 April 2026

MARIA DUARTE and JOHN GREEN review Michael, The North, Exit 8, Rose of Nevada

Olive Gray as Maria and Slavko Sobin as Vlad in Surviving Earth / Pic IMDb
Film of the week / 23 April 2026
23 April 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a gripping and touching drama, based on a true story, about a Serbian refugee rebuilding his life in Bristol

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Album reviews / 22 April 2026
22 April 2026

New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, John Luther Adams