EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Red tide sweeps away election blues
Radical change came home in every sense of the word
TORY TROUNCER: Robina Baine
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
THE first thing I must do this week is offer huge congratulations to my wife Robina on becoming the first-ever Labour councillor for our home ward, Southwick Green, situated around the entrance to Shoreham Port on the West Sussex coast.
She increased the vote share by 20 per cent and made the local TV news — you should have seen the faces of the Tories at the count when they lost a seat considered such a shoe-in they have never even bothered to canvass there. I was moved to verse:
When once, in misty moments before time,
Huge dinosaurs trod heavy on the earth:
When three wise pilgrims travelled from
the East
Inspired by tidings of a virgin birth:
When Shakespeare cried “Once more unto the breach!”
And Dickens, nervous, penned his first short story:
When Bobby raised the cup in ’66
In that Cup Final, our home ward was Tory.
Things will not be as they have always been.
My wife Robina has won Southwick Green!
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