MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
The battle for post-Brexit Britain can be won
A new book underlines why there are grounds for left optimism now we have left the EU, says ANDREW MURRAY
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
STEVE JOHNSON recommends a protest album with a harder edge than many in the genre
DENNIS BROE finds much to praise in the new South African Netflix series, but wonders why it feels forced to sell out its heroine
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change
In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
The Left Case for Brexit
by Richard Tuck
(Polity Books £14.99)
JUST about the most dismal moment of a grim general election campaign must have been Boris Johnson announcing that he would take advantage of the freedoms Britain would acquire upon leaving the European Union to adopt a more proactive state aid to industry regime and implement a domestic-preference public-procurement policy.
Johnson’s sincerity should of course be doubted. But the fact that it was a Tory leader advocating for the state playing a bigger economic role outside the EU than would be permitted within it, rather than Labour doing so, was a measure of how far Labour had lost the Brexit plot.
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