RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
The elephant in the room: why UK living standards may be lower in 2030 than they were in 2019 or even 2007 and what we can do to stop this happening
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The virus crisis has taught us that we need to move towards greater self-sufficiency — or would we rather continue to depend on China for personal protective equipment, for 5G communications and for nuclear power stations?
We have deindustrialised more than any comparable country, damaging jobs, regional balance and productivity.
The share of our GDP coming from manufacturing has fallen from a third in 1970 to less than a tenth now. We invest a falling share of GDP in machinery and equipment — only 2.8 per cent, down from 3.6 per cent in 2008.
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