The UK is in a moment of crisis and mainstream economics is failing to respond.

Many of the challenges we face today, from the cost of living crisis to climate breakdown,

are the legacies of a deeper and darker history that forms the very bedrock of our modern economic system.

In Boomerang, a new documentary film from Open Democracy, academic and author Kojo-Karam

visits the city of Liverpool to explore how decisions of decades past are breaking Britain today

and how an honest reckoning with the legacies of empire can help us build an economy that works

for all.

Boomerang features legendary footballer John Barnes,

academic and writer Dahlia Gabriel,

and Labour MP Clive Lewis.

The premiere, followed by a Q&A,

is on November 8th at 6.30pm

at the Art House Cinema in Crouchend, London.

You can get your tickets today by going to Eventbrite

and searching

boomerang, Empire and Britain's economy. Liverpool, a proud city, a home of industry,

the Beatles, football. Right now, this city is facing a harsh winter.

Across the UK, ordinary people are bearing the brunt of a catastrophic drop in living standards.

As the effects of the system buy harder, many people are asking how we arrived at this point.

Questions of Britain's past.

Questions about how this country was formed.

For whom is our economy designed to work?

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