Books Books Solidarity in the housework place SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a polemic against “cleanfluencers” and considers radical alternatives to current inequalities of housework
Theatre Review Monday 10th Mar 2025 Theatre Review Anti-fascist musical? JAN WOOLF doubts that soft-core musical is the best way to transmit an important story of heroism and resistance
Theatre Review Thursday 13th Mar 2025 Theatre Review Routine delinquency MARY CONWAY admires an accomplished drama that explores the consequences of a fatal punch on a desolate housing estate
Theatre Review Friday 07th Mar 2025 Theatre Review King queen GORDON PARSONS admires a version of Marlowe’s grim tragedy that strips it down to its gay essentials
Attila the Stockbroker Diary Friday 07th Mar 2025 Attila the Stockbroker Diary Attila the Stockbroker Diary: March 7, 2025 The Bard encounters Laibach’s revival of their 1987 album Opus Dei, and is stirred to verse
Friday 07th Mar 2025 Subverting me softly LEIGH CARRIAGE remembers Roberta Flack, a spellbinding virtuoso of musical interpretation
Short Story Sunday 09th Mar 2025 Short Story Bubble Man by Jonathan Taylor When Cassy’s father fails to connect with his daughter — and misses out on an evening in the Bitter End — a stranger’s self-mocking charm brings seething resentment.
Books Friday 07th Mar 2025 Books The enduring power of radical ideas PHIL KATZ applauds the biography of a man of principle that is a vibrant excavation of the radical tradition itself
Books Thursday 06th Mar 2025 Books Hope for the best, expect the worst IAN SINCLAIR welcomes the first word on Transformative Adaptation, a new group that has grown out of Extinction Rebellion
Books Thursday 06th Mar 2025 Books Gang warfare and class struggle GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a masterful study of gang behaviour in the favelas of Sao Paulo
Books Thursday 06th Mar 2025 Books The power of mass demonstration ANDREW MURRAY is compelled by the moment of revolution in British history when Parliament had political intimacy with society