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Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema

To protect our workmates, our families and friends, the immunocompromised and the elderly, it is our social responsibility to take all the precautions we can to stop the spread of the virus. Does this mean the class struggle is suspended for the duration of the pandemic? Far from it!

The COP26 conference in Glasgow last November proved to be another predictable failure to address the climate crisis.

While the Tory government gets embroiled in another political crisis of its own making, life gets harder for the rest of us. The picture was already bleak in 2021, when in November inflation rose to 5.1%, its highest rate in a decade. The price of certain goods was already skyrocketing, most notably fuel. The average price of petrol soared by 29.5%, while the average gas bill rose by 12%. These figures are unfortunately set to go from bad to worse, with inflation largely predicted at a further rise of 6%.

Editor’s note: In this column, former journalist Bob Robinson remembers a trip behind the Iron Curtain to the Soviet Union. Bob Robinson It was a cold and rainy evening at LaGuardia Airport in New York City when we boarded the overnight TWA flight to Brussels, Belgium and then on to Moscow. I was the youngest of 25 Tennesseans traveling to the Soviet Union as part of President Dwight Eisenhower’s People to People Goodwill trip. It was an agriculture mission led by the director of the Tennessee Dairy Association. Most in the group were state legislators, including my dad, Sen. Herman...