STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Beyond Caring
Damning indictment of unemployment in the Thatcher era
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
UNEMPLOYMENT, as anyone who has experienced it for even a short time knows, is soul-destroying and humiliating.
Every unemployed person is made to feel that it’s their fault and that society has no obligation towards them. It’s nothing to do with a heartless and oppressive system.
That’s why Salford-born photographer Paul Graham’s book Beyond Caring, first self-published in 1985, is as explosive as ever. The system hasn’t changed, only the faces of the unemployed.
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