Reviews

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...

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...

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...

Rhodesia before UDI

Duncan Bowie on a colonial critique A Critical History of Southern Rhodesia by Gardner Thompson published by Lynne Reinner There are surprisingly few books on...

European Social Policy

Peter Kenyon releases the vapourware Social Europe: From Vision to Vigour by Björn Hacker published by Foundation for Progressive European Studies Thin pocket-sized booklets covering policy...

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....

How not to be a Prime Minister

Duncan Bowie on Liz Truss and her legacy Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon published by Atlantic  There was a rumour that Seldon was not going...

Brutal and barbarous

Glyn Ford on lessons from 20C Fascism Duce: The Contradictions of Power by Peter J. Williamson published by Hurst In the wake of the victory of...

The Mental Deficiency Act

Rory O’Kelly on eugenics and social control The undesirables: The law that locked away a generation by Sarah Wise - published by Oneworld Between its passage...

Uncovering corporate power

Mike Davis on a searing indictment Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley published Bloomsbury Subtitled, “Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts and the death of freedom” this book is...