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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?
Round-up 2016: Attila the Stockbroker
Star columnists run through what’s impressed them this year
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
REVIEW of the year? Well, it gets a worse one from me than I’d give to a Coldplay box set with guest appearances from Phil Collins, Boris Johnson and the Crystal Palace first team — which is saying something.
I am by nature a cheerful, optimistic person but this year my resilience has been tested like never before. Good riddance, 2016. Go and boil your bottom.
There was the steady rise of the xenophobic far-right in Europe — why does the liberal media keep talking up Marine Le Pen? — and the “election” as US President of a misogynistic, unstable bully who surged into office with two-and-a-half million fewer votes than his opponent, a Wall Street warmonger.
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