Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Hats off to Stormzy, ground-breaker for spoken-word performance at Glastonbury and beyond
Triumphant: Stormzy
[Joel C Ryan]
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
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ON THE road again, writing on the train, got a million ideas buzzing round my brain...
I’m heading to Bradford for a last minute Literature Festival gig at St George’s Hall with award-winning poet and podcaster George the Poet and very much looking forward to meeting another trailblazer from the burgeoning new generation of spoken-word artists.
They’re everywhere these days and, in a huge triumph not just for Stormzy, but for the genre, one has just headlined the main stage at Glastonbury.
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