I, Daniel Blake: Ken Loach's welfare state polemic is blunt, dignified and brutally moving

There are shades of Dickens and Orwell in this emphatic drama about a disabled man strangled by the red tape of the benefits systemWith this movie — maybe his last, and maybe not — Ken Loach establishes himself yet further as the John Bunyan of contemporary British cinema. Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle-aged widower in the North East who can’t work or get benefits after a near-fat