Reviews
Getting Real
Glyn Ford on China
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power by Kerry Brown - published by Yale University Press
Kerry Brown...
On failed heroes
Duncan Bowie on the Revolutionary Left
Raising the Red Flag by Tony Collins - published by Haymarket
This book is a study of the British revolutionary...
Populism
Denis Macshane on a taxonomy of the New Right
The Little Black Book of the Populist Right by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar - published by...
No simple dichotomy?
Rory O’Kelly on autocrats
"Autocracy, Inc.: The dictators who want to run the world" by Anne Applebaum published by Allen Lane
This book was published...
A Complete Vacuum
Patrick Mulcahy on early Dylan on screen
Lately filmmakers – and their subjects – have been messing with the format of the traditional music biography....
Inevitability of failure
Brian O’Leary on a fatalistic view of Soviet demise
"Why communism failed" by Jasper Becker - published by Hurst
This book crudely sees the command economy...
Ticket to Trumpland
Victor Anderson tries to understand Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatism
"Conservatism in Crisis - Rise of the Bureaucratic Class" (Renewal 2030) : Introduction by Kemi Badenoch
This pamphlet...
Reviving democratic socialism
Frank Hansen on a challenge to the left
"The Long Retreat - strategies to reverse the decline of the left" by Boris Kagarlitsky published by...
Who they come for first…
Don Flynn on avoiding the vortex towards fascism
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilisation by Richard Seymour published by Verso
There are many worrying signs that...
Europes American Problem
Glyn Ford on European and UK dilemmas
Who Will Defend Europe? An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent by Keir Giles published by Hurst
Giles’ message...
War and the great game
Glyn Ford on a new world order
Westlessness - The Great Global Rebalancing by Samir Puri published by Hodder & Stoughton
The rest are on track...
Picking but not choosing
Patrick Mulcahy reviews "On Falling"
On Falling” is riveting, immersive cinema. The devastating first feature film from Portuguese writer-director Laura Carreira, it offers an...