JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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The Nanny State Made Me
Stuart Maconie advances engaging case for public good over private profit
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
EVEN though the seed of this book was planted after an interview with Tony Benn in the Post Office Tower, it hasn’t germinated into a virulent anti-capitalist tirade. Broadcaster, journalist and BBC teamster Stuart Maconie is no revolutionary.
But in The Nanny State Made Me he has produced an entertaining, though occasionally rambling, homage to the social security that many of us have enjoyed courtesy of a benevolent “big” state.
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