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EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Advice to a Conspirator by Chris Norris
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
“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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