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...