CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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An ‘economic Nato’ exposed
Gordon Parsons reviews TTIP: The Truth About the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, by Ferdi De Ville and Gabriel Siles-Brugge (Polity, £12.99)
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
TTIP — the plan for an all-encompassing EU-US trade agreement with massive implications for the power of governments to control their social policies domestically — has barely impinged on public awareness.
That’s why this pithy analysis of this dangerous attempt by business and investment interests to impose substantial control over democratic decision-making is so invaluable in presenting the facts objectively.
Where trade policy is normally concealed behind inherently boring detail, growing controversies around TTIP have repoliticised trade issues, revealing how they affect everyday life and public welfare.
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