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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
Round-up 2016: Attila the Stockbroker
Star columnists run through what’s impressed them this year
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
REVIEW of the year? Well, it gets a worse one from me than I’d give to a Coldplay box set with guest appearances from Phil Collins, Boris Johnson and the Crystal Palace first team — which is saying something.
I am by nature a cheerful, optimistic person but this year my resilience has been tested like never before. Good riddance, 2016. Go and boil your bottom.
There was the steady rise of the xenophobic far-right in Europe — why does the liberal media keep talking up Marine Le Pen? — and the “election” as US President of a misogynistic, unstable bully who surged into office with two-and-a-half million fewer votes than his opponent, a Wall Street warmonger.
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