MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
Most scandalous state of affairs
PAUL DONOVAN recommends a novel approach to presenting the case and figures of shameful levels of UK child poverty
STATING THE OBVIOUS: The Food Foundation protest in Westminster, last September, with their reimagining of a Tory political poster aiming of getting politicians to commit to extending access to Free School Meals, as 900,000 children living in poverty are not eligible for the scheme
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
Seven Children — inequality and Britain's next generation
by Danny Dorling
Hurst £14.99
THIS book takes a novel approach to examining how one in three children live in poverty in the sixth-richest country in the world. That country is the UK.
Building on his previous book, Shattered Nation, Dorling drills down to see how seven strata of British children are affected by the poverty and inequality so rampant here.
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