Reviews
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...
I Wanna Show My Hand
Patrick Mulcahy reviews "Here"
Best known for the “Back to the Future” trilogy and “Forrest Gump", director Robert Zemeckis has been making films for over...
Neoliberalism and the city
Duncan Bowie on Manchester
The Rentier City by Isaac Rose published by Repeater
There is an increasing academic literature on rentier capitalism and the financialisation of...
Otherness, allyship and defiance
Jasmine Piakan says "Wicked" makes us reconsider our assumptions
As the opening notes of “No One Mourns the Wicked” swelled, I was transported into the...
Yesterday’s Men (and Women)
Nigel Doggett on a battle lost
The Case for the Centre Right Ed. David Gauke published by Polity
With the Tory leadership now won by the hard...
A socialist feminist icon
Mike Davis on fighting back in the 1980s
Reasons to Rebel by Sheila Rowbotham published by Merlin
These are the author’s recollections of life, love and...
McCarthyism in Britain
Duncan Bowie on hunting communists
Anti-Communism in Britain during the early Cold War by Matthew Gerth published by University of London Press
The subheading of the...
A Thin Defence
Mazin Zeki on the complexities of conflicting rights
Human Right: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti pubished by Allen Lane
Chakrabarti responds to left and right critiques....
French political culture
Andrew Coates on a critique which does not fix
Fixing France by Nabila Ramdani published by Hurst
Published last year Fixing France came with the publisher's...