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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Tim Turnbull - All Power Does What?
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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
All Power Does What?
Tim Turnbull
It’s a shallow, slippery step; a trap
that sets you tumbling all the way
from mere dissembler, like Grant Shapps,
to fully fledged Duvalier;
from duck island expenses cheat
to something rather scarier:
an unremitting and complete
Tiberius, or Beria.
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