James Graham is a brilliant playwright who has made stage hits out of such unlikely subjects as the football manager Gareth Southgate (Dear England), life in political party whips’ offices (This House) and even a 1968 series of obscure American TV debates (Best Of Enemies).
His latest project is a play about the economist John Maynard Keynes, a darling of the Left thanks to his posthumous role in persuading the post-war government of Clement Attlee to borrow big to ‘stimulate demand’ and ‘generate jobs’ (never mind that Attlee, like every subsequent Labour government that has followed Keynes’s approach, suffered terrible financial
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