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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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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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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