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
Drowning, not waving
PAUL DONOVAN cannot fault an analysis that points to the UK as one of the most unequal societies in the world, but struggles to share the author’s optimism
DEEDS NOT WORDS: (L to R) Angela Rayner, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government; Matt Downie, Chief Executive of Crisis; Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London and Rushanara Ali, Homelessness Minister during a PR exercise at the homelessness charity Crisis just before Christmas 2024, naturally
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
Peak Injustice
Danny Dorling, Policy Press, £14.99
A THIRD of children in the UK live under the poverty line. The UK is now the second most unequal society in Europe, with only Bulgaria worse.
It was not ever thus. Back in 1976, the UK was the second most equal country, after Sweden, and people were happier.
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends a novel approach to presenting the case and figures of shameful levels of UK child poverty
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a brilliant book that should be compulsory reading for all MPs
JEREMY CORBYN explains that peace, housing and decent living standards for all are top of his agenda as Britain gets set to head to the polls, where he has announced he will be an independent candidate