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Gordon Parsons reviews TTIP: The Truth About the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, by Ferdi De Ville and Gabriel Siles-Brugge (Polity, £12.99)
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
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
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
TTIP — the plan for an all-encompassing EU-US trade agreement with massive implications for the power of governments to control their social policies domestically — has barely impinged on public awareness.
That’s why this pithy analysis of this dangerous attempt by business and investment interests to impose substantial control over democratic decision-making is so invaluable in presenting the facts objectively.
Where trade policy is normally concealed behind inherently boring detail, growing controversies around TTIP have repoliticised trade issues, revealing how they affect everyday life and public welfare.
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