Jimmy watches Countdown and tries to ignore his bills, grief, COPD and frailty. Meanwhile, his carer walks a tightrope between kindness and reality
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When the Pilrig Church Clock Strikes 13
by Mike Cowley
JOHN FLINT explores the Appleby Blue development, winner of the Stirling prize 2025
GORDON PARSONS enjoys the wealth of wisdom and the clarity of expression from a dialogue between Chomsky and Mujica
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
As Pete Shelley sang, Boredom
is counter-revolutionary.
Run, Leithers! The old world is behind you!
Expel the policeman from your head.
All power to the Imagination!
The landlords are homeless.
The bankers’ laments are derivative
of songs whose time has run out.
The corporate lawyers plead guilty
on behalf of their clients.
We are realists. We only demand the Impossible!
We will organise sit-ins in your souls, occupations
in the margins of your ledgers.
When the last neoliberal is strangled with the last copy of the Daily Mail
When the Granton campus dreamers twin with Gaza’s colonised streets
When the last establishment entryist is exposed
When the spectacle’s final reel unspools in nude ignominy
the noonday underground will emerge from its slumbers.
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