Attila the Stockbroker Diary Attila the Stockbroker Diary Attila the Stockbroker Diary: April 18, 2025 Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Books Friday 28th Mar 2025 Books Class exercise JOHN GREEN recommends an entertaining, if harsh and instructive, study of bullying, discipline and power dynamics in schools and at work
Books Thursday 27th Mar 2025 Books Liverpool’s sell-by date CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
Theatre Review Thursday 27th Mar 2025 Theatre Review Last tango at the butcher’s MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
Cinema Thursday 27th Mar 2025 Cinema Film round-up: March 27, 2025 The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
Film of the Week: Thursday 27th Mar 2025 Film of the Week: Not painting the full picture CHRISTINE LINDEY welcomes a film that focuses exclusively on women war artists, but deplores its omission of feminism, political context and Soviet anti-war art
Interview Wednesday 26th Mar 2025 Interview ‘Rock and pop music were the unexpected consequences of the working-class entering history’ BRETT GREGORY speaks with TOBY MANNING, author of Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music
Book Review Tuesday 25th Mar 2025 Book Review Authentic worlds SARAH TROTT explores short fictional slices of life in the American midwest from a middle-aged and mostly female perspective
Literature Tuesday 25th Mar 2025 Literature Living in this brief, violent world JESSICA WIDNER explores how the twin themes of violence and love run through the novels of South Korean Nobel prize-winner Han Kang
Live Music Review Tuesday 25th Mar 2025 Live Music Review Happy jazz MARK TURNER is staggered by a gifted jazz pianist from the Welsh Valleys