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Published: 1 1851: The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition of 1851 was Britain’s glittering shop window and showcase for the world’s attention and admiration. The first and greatest industrial power, the greatest imperial power, and the greatest naval power was, in effect, showing off its extraordinary achievements and at the same time advertising its manufacturing and industrial wares. Advertisement Although William Morris and others were to react negatively to the mass production of everyday utensils, furniture and textiles as depressingly lacking in beauty and originality,...

by Owen Hatherley (Repeater Books, £10.99) FOR anyone who’s lived in London during the last 50 years — and especially if you’ve taken an interest in its politics — Owen Hatherley’s book is unputdownable. He knows his stuff and writes so fluently that he’s made what could be a very dry subject into a page-turner.   A book about much more than the title suggests, it’s also an attempt to understand the Labour Party’s crushing December 2019 defeat and suggest some ways for the left to reform, in part inspired by London’s radical tradition.    Hatherley charts the evolution o...

Breakaway finally came nearly four-and-a-half years after Britons voted to leave the European Union In New Year message, Mr Johnson called the departure 'an amazing moment', adding 'freedom is in our hands' Breakaway came as the port of Dover was pictured on Thursday evening completely devoid of traffic From Thursday, many lorries will need a special pass, a Kent Access Permit (Kap), to leave the country  Britain finally broke free from EU rules at 11pm on Thursday, just a day after members of parliament voted through the last-minute deal Boris Johnson secured with the bloc to avoid a No Dea...

What Brexit chaos? Britain says EU trade is 'running smoothly' as trucks cross Channel on UK's first day outside single market - as first Irish Sea checks take place under new deal Lord Llewellyn visited the port at Calais and the Eurotunnel terminal 'to see the situation on the ground' The breakaway finally came nearly four-and-a-half years after Britons voted in a referendum to leave the EU Lorries have began arriving from EU into Britain and in the other direction with no delays as trade deal kicks in In New Year message, Mr Johnson called the departure 'an amazing moment', adding 'freedom...

At the end of November Joshua Leifer, an Associate Editor of Jewish Currents [ JC], wrote an article about the “tragedy” of Jeremy Corbyn. He did not seek the opinions of any Jewish victims of the “antisemitism” witchhunt in the Labour Party. As the first Jewish member of the party to be expelled I submitted a response. At first I was simply ignored and after a reminder, Arielle Angel, Editor-in-chief, explained that it was a lack of resources that prevented them publishing my reply. JC “simply do not have the bandwidth to publish full response articles to articles we’ve publish...