MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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Quo vadis?
Finding or refinding its purpose will be fundamental to the future of the Party - what that cannot mean is being a lighter shade of blue, writes PAUL DONOVAN
PD labour
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
A Century of Labour
by Jon Cruddas
Polity £25
LABOUR MP Jon Cruddas has produced a timely account of the 100-year history of the Labour Party.
The retiring MP for Dagenham and Rainham poses a number of challenging questions throughout, not the least being does the party have a purpose?
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