Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
THE VAST cattle properties of the Australian Outback is the setting for The Lost Man by Jane Harper (Little Brown, £12.99).
In empty areas the size of British counties and in burning, never-ending heat, if you wander away from your vehicle you will die. There are no landmarks, no phone reception, no shade, no water and the nearest neighbours are hours away.
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
JOHN GREEN is stirred by an ambitious art project that explores solidarity and the shared memory of occupation


