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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Myth-buster
An excellent outline of the political landscape of the 1970s is a welcome antidote to cliched analyses of the decade, says Steve Andrews
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
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
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-1976, by John Medhurst (Zero Books, £11.99)
If there is one thing that nearly all historical accounts of Britain in the 1970s agree upon it is that the country was politically chaotic, economically in decline and culturally barren.
It was only with the advent of the Thatcher era that the admittedly harsh but fundamentally necessary measures were taken that would put society back on track. Or so the conventional narrative goes.
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