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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
An august sense that ‘all human beings are kin’
Andy Croft’s 21st-century poetry
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
Old people are everywhere. There are currently more than 11 million in Britain over retirement age, 20 per cent of the total population, and more than a million of them are aged 85 and over.
These are large numbers, more than enough to suggest that old people should exert a forceful presence in British society.
Unfortunately, they are mostly invisible, except as problems (“bed-blockers”), victims (care-home scandals) or figures of fun (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, New Tricks or Quartet).
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