Jack Shenker's The Egyptians: A Radical Story is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how and why Egypt's revolution happened – and why it continues.
Ian Rutledge’s book, Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914–1921 (Saqi Books, 2014), is a story of imperial arrogance and plunder and the inevitable reaction it generates.
An important and compelling history of Britain’s workers, especially women, yet not as original as it claims to be. If they seem little known and studied maybe this is because every history of Britain’s workers is conveniently forgotten.
If Orwell were alive today, what would he say?
Dissenters to the dystopic state of Britain, like David Marquand and Michael Meacher MP, set out the inequalities and economic policies than disfigure British society and propose overlapping remedies. Given the power of the institutions ranged against us, can we—and they—possibly prevail?
Michael Kenny's new book, The Politics of English Nationhood, is a vital read and charts much new ground, but its overriding analysis is constrained by its focus on identity and belonging at the expense of democracy.
Labour and social democratic parties in general are succumbing weakly to the demands of global capital and neo-liberal policies. Stuart Weir hails a bold new initiative, a transformational Magna Carta for our times.
Taking a post-modern look at modern politics.
Modern governments of all stripes screw up too often. A new study of their blunders suggests that ‘strong government’, traditionally the great strength of the governing system, is to blame. Let’s hear it for deliberative democracy.
This book shines a bright light on the murky dealings surrounding politics, PR, big business and journalism, but the real issue it uncovers may not be lobbying but rather the dire state of our democracy.
Devaluation alone is not the solution to the UK's economic woes. But it is the necessary foundation needed for other policies to work.
In his new book John Mills makes a strong case for a British devaluation of sterling but we must start thinking about the socio-political foundations which shape our dysfunctional economy - you can't have a German economy sitting on the UK's political structures.
