STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
Latest editorial
Climate Change and the Nation State
Arguments for national autonomy in confronting environmental crisis
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
“CLIMATE change will be a battle between uncontrolled capitalism and the planet,” Anatol Lieven declares in his conclusion to this thought-provoking book. In his view, it is far more of a threat to the world’s great powers than they are to each other.
Yet, while the 2008 National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom states that climate change is
“potentially the greatest challenge to global stability and security and therefore to national security,”nothing has been done.
Similar stories
Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year
Two new releases from Burkina Faso and Niger, one from French-based Afro Latin The Bongo Hop, and rare Mexican bootlegs