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PETE HIRST introduces a theatre company from Wakefield dedicated to the propagation of socialist perspectives on present British political realities
JENNY FARRELL reminds us that the US novelist, famed for pulp fiction and nature stories, was, by virtue of life experience, a committed revolutionary socialist
Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant to Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals
by Oliver Bullough
Profile Books, £20
THIS book exposes the role of successive British governments in aiding and abetting a huge range of criminal acts.
As Bullough writes: “It’s not just that Britain is not investigating the crooks, it’s helping them too.”
As he notes: “However bad other countries are, Britain has for decades been worse. It operates as a gigantic loophole, undercutting other countries’ rules, massaging down tax rates, neutering regulations, laundering foreign criminals’ money.”
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