A year of rich offerings that would have pricked any and all ears

By Rebecca Lowe

Although sitting was tight, DAVID NICHOLSON has had a whale of a time especially when joining in the sing along finale

BEN CHACKO salutes the Morning Star cartoonists

LUCY BURKE recommends a brilliantly compelling piece of ‘theatre verite’

JOSEPHINE BARBARO welcomes a diverse anthology of experiences by autistic women that amounts to a resounding chorus, demanding to be heard

PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention

PETER MASON is entertained by the autobiography of Charlie Harper, one of punk’s most enduring figures

JAMIE BRITTON reaches for the sick bucket as he is forced to engorge detail after detail of the Royal Family’s wealth

by Jonathan Andersen

PAUL DONOVAN relishes the candour of a historian who refuses to whitewash the crimes of British imperial history

MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films