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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
There's life yet on the radical fringe of Labour
A brief reflection on expulsion
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
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
Cycling to the Pop & Politics fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Brighton last week, I reflected briefly on my expulsion from the Labour Party after the 1997 election.
My crime? Writing a funny poem urging Labour voters in the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency to tactically vote Liberal Democrat.
It didn't work, of course - a maggot-ridden dead dog would get elected round here as long as it had a blue rosette on it.
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