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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
Looking ahead by looking back
Musician ROBERT WYATT reflects on some of the highs and lows of the last 12 months and looks forward to the year ahead
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
I've heard it claimed that journalism is the first draft of history.
Maybe that's the problem with our mainstream news industry - better if history were the first draft of journalism, surely?
So to look ahead, I look back, to see a bit of how we got here.
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