MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Keir Hardie and the 21st-century Socialist Revival
Timely reminder of Labour Party founder's vision
STILL RELEVANT: Keir Hardie
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
IN THE dispiriting aftermath of the election, many may feel that there is a tragic irony in the subtitle to this collection of essays on the life and work of Labour Party founder Keir Hardie.
But they should take note of Jeremy Corbyn’s final sentence in his afterword to the book: “Hardie taught us much, above all, that his staying power against adversity could bring about change.”
In the introduction, MP Richard Burgon observes that it is only in recent years that the significance of Hardie’s politics have re-emerged on the left. Their relevance will become even more important in the upcoming struggle for the future of the party.
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