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  • Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and former chancellor Jeremy Hunt placing a sign reading "levelling up" on a building

    The Broken Promise of Infrastructure – review

    Dominic Davies’s book is a much needed analysis of the role infrastructure relates to and informs our politics, writes Anubha Sarkar

  • Keir Starmer holds a copy of the Labour manifesto in front of a red bus with the word 'Change' pasted on the side

    Even on its own terms, the government is failing on mental health

    Labour’s manifesto acknowledged a mental health epidemic but after 100 days in office, there are no signs it has the courage to tackle it – even though it’s a grave threat to its core strategy, economic growth. By Max Fafford

  • Key words: Innovation

    ‘Innovation’ is often invoked as a byword for progress within capitalism, but as Joe Mayall explains, such progress does not serve everyone equally

  • A young man in a white t-shirt in the process of installing wool insulation between wooden beams in a roof space

    How not to decarbonise housing: the ECO scam

    With debate over the winter fuel allowance raging and the energy price cap set to rise, Samuel Young assesses the flawed government scheme for energy efficient homes

  • A montage of photos showing: a child kicking a football inside a closed space; a prtest rally with signs reading: No Staff, No Art; a small child wearing a VR headset with the words ‘let create museums of the future’ super imposed; a signer on stage reaching out towards the crowd

    The state of the arts

    Danielle Child examines the key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government, austerity programmes, Brexit and a global pandemic

  • A selection of historical board games on a pink background

    Radical board games: a history

    Agitators, educators and organisers have long created board games to promote radical values. Red Pepper spotlights some playful examples – including one transformed by capitalism

  • Skyscrapers in the City of London at night, taken during the 2018 super moon

    Vulture Capitalism – review

    Grace Blakeley’s latest book is a vitally needed analysis of the rot at the heart of neoliberal capitalism, writes Harry Cross

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