MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films
An excoriating account of the Corbyn years that merits critical engagement
This deeply personal memoir will be controversial across the left, but makes points we should all take on board, argues BEN CHACKO
MISJUDGING THE POLITICAL MOOD: Vote leave supporters in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex
STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival
SIMON DUFF picks his favourites, from radical African-inspired electronic rhythms to improvisations on the organ
For GORDON PARSONS, a dramatic exploration of the abuse of young men at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre trumps Beckett, a couple of Hamlets and a bracing Candide
From feminist manifestos to exiled lovers to mythic islands, LEO BOIX selects the best fiction, poetry and non-fiction
FIONA O’CONNOR picks books and films that show defiance in the face of violence and injustice
TEN YEARS HARD LABOUR will make you angry — whether you agree with it or not.
Chris Williamson’s deeply personal account of the decade between his first election as a Labour MP in 2010 and the end of the Jeremy Corbyn leadership in 2020 is a painful read.
Most of us were involved, after all, in trying to turn the huge positive potential of Labour’s socialist advance from 2015 into reality and struggled against the slow motion car crash of 2017-19.
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