GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a version set amid the violent conflicts of the 19th century west African Oyo empire before the intervention of British colonialism
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Reduced to This
by Andrew Nickson
Protesters on the Embankment during a pro-Palestine march in central London, to call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. December 9, 2023.
GILL PARSONS introduces the remarkable process by which her childhood experience of a convalescent home has become a new drama
SEAMUS HIGGINS introduces some basic facts about the role of sugar in driving a worldwide crisis of diet-related diseases
Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London
New releases from The Orb, Meredith Monk, and Marconi Union
RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Look at me, reduced to chanting
“Ceasefire now”
with hundreds through Soho Hill
where Kathryn Dayus’ mum and sister were killed
in the blitz in Birmingham in 1941.
Look at me, reduced to holding my placard
saying “Free Palestine”
while sheepish sullen shoppers
gawp at us as they hurry home
to Mrs Brown’s Boys and Love Island.
Look at me, reduced to writing a letter
to my MP McCabe
asking why on earth he said at our Labour Party meeting
that the BBC is a Hamas mouthpiece.
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