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Books: Review - The State We Need by Michael Meacher
LUKE JAMES reads the veteran MP's 'uncompromisingly positive vision' of the changes Britain needs
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK
The State We Need
by Michael Meacher
(Biteback Publishing, £18.99)
Once fabled festivals of debate and democracy, party conferences are now bemoaned as mere political pep rallies, led by identikit cheerleaders chanting vacuous slogans. If they're not being stage managed by spin doctors, then they're being upstaged by former spin doctors.
Labour conference delegates vote for policies which their leaders have already agreed will never be pursued. Unable to speak or cast even a token vote, the dwindling number of their Tory counterparts nod obediently like novelty dogs while their masters bark their noxious rhetoric.
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