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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
F. O'Leary - We Lost Our Way
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JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
We Lost Our Way
F. O'Leary
By speaking in a language they don’t understand
– faction-baggage, or sick-making-myth –
year in, year out,
we were letting young people down.
Fracturing, division,
a widening gap,
we got it wrong
in every corner of our country.
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