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When the going gets tough, the tough get gigging
There are plenty of radical cultural events out there to support in the next few weeks

THERE is something totally surreal about doing a column about a life as a travelling performance poet and musician when the country is going through its biggest constitutional upheaval since the civil war.

Especially so writing this on the day following Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament, approved by the Queen.

Such an order, enacted by a constitutional figurehead on behalf of a prime minister with no popular mandate, has no more historical legitimacy than it did in 1642.

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