EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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The Appalling Silence of Good People
by Merryn Williams
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
I’m haunted still by my cowardice, my silence
that long-lost morning when my fellow student,
flaunting a newspaper,
said loudly, in her clipped white-South African accent,
‘I think that girl should be shot through the head’.
I should have snapped back, ‘Helen, that’s disgusting!’
and, when she expressed incredulity, should have said,
‘I don’t want to listen to your sadistic fantasies.
I’m not shocked by that poor girl, I’m shocked by you’.
Would we have actually fought each other? Two
young women scuffling in that respectable common room?
I edged away from her, and no one was shot.
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