Reviews
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...