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It was a friendship that would shape their writing for the rest of their lives

Linton Kwesi Johnson and Michael Smith

as well as an epilogue from Jameson himself

and how target-obsessed managerialism stifled creativity

declaring time and again that “illegal immigration” is a threat to the nation’s security

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