EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Sleepless Nights
by John Pinkerton
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
To lead
And not be led
By chancers
To heed
And not dread
The answers
To feed
And not be fed
By lies
To have led
The TUC rally
‘Enough is enough’
Would have been
A surprise
To have appeared at
The Durham Miners’ Gala
And not to have feared
The multitude’s angry tropes
To have fed those thousands
And their hopes of
The socialist gleam
Would have been
My moment damascene
A nightmare
Not a dream
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