Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
Anti-war campaigners say the Health Secretary's private admission to Peter Mandelson only makes him more guilty of complicity in Israel’s crimes
Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL
As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON
SCOTT ALSWORTH suggests that video games have a lot to learn the rich tradition of Marxist theatre
ANDY HEDGECOCK is enthralled by a collection of South Korean ghost stories where human behaviour is as chilling as any spectral activity
MARY CONWAY revels in the macabre waiting game of Strindberg’s forensic dissection of a loveless ruling-class marriage
DAVID YEARSLEY examines the soundtrack and filmic predecessors of the execrable Melania
SIMON PARSONS is charmed by a hilarious tender show that will open the eyes to the delights and possibilities of puppetry
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes the complete poems of Seamus Heaney for the unmistakeable memory of colonialism that they carry