Releases from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Maggie Nicols/Robert Mitchell/Alya Al Sultani, and Gordon Beck Trio and Quintet
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Advice to a Conspirator by Chris Norris
The Bard stands with the Reformers of Peterloo, and their shared genius in teaching history with music and song
SUE TURNER is fascinated by a book that researches who the largely immigrant workforce were that built the Empire State
MARIA DUARTE and MALC McGOOKIN review Sirat, The Testament of Ann Lee, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and All You Need Is Kill
STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit
MARY CONWAY relishes the period detail but misses the drama in this unsatisfactory dramatisation of the subjugated life of George Eliot
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
You’ve told us lots of times “it’s do or die”
For you, this Brexit thing, so if the “do”
Bit doesn’t work, however hard you try,
Then don’t despair: there’s always Option Two.
I know, you’ll wriggle out of it, you’ll lie,
Prevaricate, and bluster, but if you
Seek one good deed to be remembered by
Then it’s that second choice you'll carry through.
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