ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
For a Left Populism
by Chantal Mouffe
(Verso, £8.79)
NEOLIBERALISM — an ideology that once dominated the world, forcing an economic and political consensus from major parties of left and right — is in crisis, argues political theorist Chantal Mouffe.
The financial crash of 2008 prompted its decade-long retreat from the global stage and politics, once a “a mere issue of managing the established order, a domain reserved for experts,” is fast becoming the realm of “the outsider.”
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
JOHN GREEN asks how can we take decisive action on population levels with a world leader who is a destructive ignoramus



