MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
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
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
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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