ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
IN THE last year, I’ve read or listened to a number of things I’d put on the list of any left activist’s need-to-know list, be they working on an industrial dispute, an election campaign or in a social movement.
Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts is a no-nonsense approach to the long-term deep level of organising in communities everywhere that the left needs to undertake if it has a hope of making the best of the mixed possibilities of the moment.
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT


