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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The mill stone around contemporary Britain’s neck
A wealth of information is let down by the final conclusions, writes WILL PODMORE
DOGMATIC MONOLITH: The Treasury building in London
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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
Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts: The inside history of the Treasury since 1976
by Aeron Davis
Manchester University Press £16.99
THIS is a splendid survey of a key department of state. The Treasury dominates the state machine.
What is its purpose? The record shows that it consistently opposes our national industries, regional development, central planning, and much-needed infrastructure projects.
By contrast it always gives foreign companies incentives to move to Britain — regional development aid, free enterprise zones, free ports. It backs international finance against national industry.
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