John Booth

<p>John Booth is a Yorkshire-born journalist who has worked for The Washington Post, The Guardian and The Observer and currently works for The Independent on Sunday. He has also served in the House of

The Revolution Will Be Digitised: dispatches from the information war

Heather Brooke uncovered the MPs expenses scandal and played a key role in the Wikileaks project. Her new book explores the emancipatory consequences of digitisation, as well as the potential for new forms of oppression.

By John Booth

/ 11 Oct 2011

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones' new book documents the changes that have turned the working class into an object of fear and ridicule

By John Booth

/ 3 Jun 2011

Empires Apart: America and Russia from the Vikings to Iraq

As events in North Africa and the Middle East are daily displaying, America’s global influence is rapidly waning. This is an apt time to return to Brian Landers’ Empires Apart, a hugely impressive comparative study of the imperial imperatives of America and Russia: one which stimulates reflective

By John Booth

/ 3 Mar 2011