<p>As the chancellor, John Healey, ponders options ahead of his first budget, the playwright’s new work offers lessons from the past</p><p>Still only 44, James Graham has become a formidable chronicler of our national story. On themes such as the rise of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/28/ink-review-when-idea-of-a-mission-to-inform-was-burned-by-the-sun">Rupert Murdoch</a>, social upheaval in post-industrial Britain and the <a href="https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/producti