Praiseworthy Simon Armitage

Praiseworthy Simon ArmitageIn a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his peoples independence forever. He finds, however, as he bundles feral donkeys into his Ford Falcon and dumps them en masse in the cemetery, that not all of Praiseworthy agrees. Outrage ferments at his desecration of traditional

brought together for the first time

Spike Milligan and Charlie Chaplin at a drunken party to celebrate the twinning of Royston Vasey with the Gorbals

voice in UK poetry

Rishi Sunak’s maths

the military detritus still to be found there

Her 60 years as an actress were celebrated by a BBC play

INTERVIEW with Edwar al-Kharrat

can offer little support

a woman fights to keep her daughters safe

Tom Chivers was born in 1983 in south London

essential reading to anyone with an interest in the bizarre machinations behind the glossy front of showbiz

whose members performed in the UK in 2009