Blessing

Music Review / 6 October 2026 The soul-baring Devin Townsend 6 October 2026 WILL STONE is absorbed by a painful life story told through heart-on-sleeve candour, and a huge back catalogue

Seven year old Sherlock, feminist crime fiction, Liverpudlian revenge-terror and a moral victory over murderous arithmetic

DAVID NICHOLSON, helped by SKYLAR and BEHATI, assess WNO’s Family concert

MARY CONWAY is uplifted by the timeliness and panache of a new play that seeks to place the influential ideas of John Maynard Keynes on stage

Ahead of this Sunday’s concert commemorating the Battle of Cable Street, Chris Searle speaks to trumpeter CLAUDE DEPPA, pioneer member of the Grand Union Orchestra

leaving home every morning at dawn passing traffic at Oyo Road junction greeting vendors balancing bread baskets on their heads as the stench of gasoline stains the Ibadan air

clutching thin white napkins, she stands in a hot kitchen frying plantains, cautious of spitting oil, her wrapper prints camouflage the grease

serving children in air-conditioned living rooms, she had rocked them to sleep when they were babies, she loved them like her own

Rina Malagayo Alluri is a Filipina-south Indian poet, peace and conflict studies scholar and yoga practitioner who grew up between Ibadan, Nigeria, and Vancouver, BC Canada/Turtle Island.

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