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...