GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Book review: Economics For The Many, edited by John McDonnell
Left economists outline a future Labour government's platform to radically transform society
For the many: A People’s Assembly demonstration against austerity
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
IN HIS introduction to 16 essays by more than a score of contributors, shadow chancellor John McDonnell points to how the 2007-8 great financial crash shattered the core myths of neoliberalism, namely that markets are the best possible basis on which to organise an economy and that wealth would trickle down from the top once barriers to corporate profit-making — notably state regulation and trade-union strength — were removed.
What has happened since then, he argues, is that company profits have soared while problems of poverty and homelessness have grown as a consequence of austerity.
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