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Attila the Stockbroker diary: May 2, 2024
ATTILA reports on a valiant attempt at removing the ghastly Tory majority on Adur Council, which “has festered there for decades like a pair of mouldy underpants” and on a more cheerful note he salutes The Men they Couldn’t Hang on their 40 years in the business of resistance
Attila in front of the Shepherds Bush Empire in London
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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
UNFORTUNATELY the result probably won’t be in until after we go to press, but I’d describe the mood as “quietly confident” — not just of her winning her seat again but of us finally removing the ghastly Tory majority on Adur Council which has festered there for decades like a pair of mouldy underpants.
We’ll see — I’ll send the news through when we have it, and maybe it can be squeezed onto the end of this week’s column. The Tories’ voter-ID trick really is disgusting, especially the bit which says that OAP bus passes and Oyster cards are valid but student ones aren’t.
Naked voter suppression in action.
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