Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
An excoriating account of the Corbyn years that merits critical engagement
This deeply personal memoir will be controversial across the left, but makes points we should all take on board, argues BEN CHACKO
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
TEN YEARS HARD LABOUR will make you angry — whether you agree with it or not.
Chris Williamson’s deeply personal account of the decade between his first election as a Labour MP in 2010 and the end of the Jeremy Corbyn leadership in 2020 is a painful read.
Most of us were involved, after all, in trying to turn the huge positive potential of Labour’s socialist advance from 2015 into reality and struggled against the slow motion car crash of 2017-19.
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