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https://routenote.com/radar/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/RedHandOfUlster_DexterHand.png800800The phrase “red right hand” comes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. In Milton’s poem, it refers to divine vengeance: the punishing hand of God. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds borrowed the image and turned it into something much less clearly divine. Their “Red Right Hand” follows a mysterious figure who appears powerful, seductive and dangerous. Is he: God? The Devil? A gangster? A politician? Capitalism? Someone who can give you exactly what you want and then own you? Cave never reduces the figure to one answer. That ambiguity is one reason the song became the perfect theme for Peaky...