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Dynamic Waging
by Ross Wilson
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
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Essential workers are retiring early
due to dynamic waging
when wages increase on the demand
put upon key workers during busy shifts.
So Morag, a thirty-three-year-auld
Healthcare Support Worker last year
is now a thirty-four-year-auld millionaire
retired to a villa in Andalucía.
‘Ivrytime a patient buzzed
or a nurse asked, ye busy?
the k-ching o’ a till
rang like a bell in ma heid.’
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