Reviews
A continuous tragedy
Patrick Costello on repeated errors
America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region by Marc Lynch published by Hurst
As Professor Marc Lynch explicitly states, his...
The waning of Françafrique
Nigel Watt on French Africa
Colonialism Devours Itself by Gerard Prunier published by Hurst
In 1945, France, briefly led by Charles De Gaulle, struggled to be...
No longer a joke
Duncan Bowie on Arctic geopolitics
So You Want to Own Greenland? by Elizabeth Buchanan published by Hurst
This book was published last September, before Donald Trump’s...
Heart of the matter
Mike Davis on fundamental questions of post-colonialism
Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail by Peter Hain published by Policy Press
Peter Hain goes to the...
Planetary disfigurement
Don Flynn on the new instruments of conquest
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities & Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Laleh Khalili published by Profile
First expectations of a...
But what about the McSweeney Files? The virus that corrupted Labour
Bryn Jones assesses the investigative journalism that has exposed dirty dealings in the party
The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British...
Semi-Detached
Glyn Ford on postwar Britain and Europe
Between the Waves:The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 by Tom McTague published by Picador
McTague provides...
Chaos and the search for peace
Duncan Bowie on UN peacemaking
Libya since Qaddafi by Stephanie Williams published by Hurst
Williams is an experienced US diplomat who was sent by the UN...
Lessons for the Left?
Bryn Jones on the case for economic transformation
"Capitalism and Its Critics" - A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World by John Cassidy published...
Flogging a dead donkey
Glyn Ford on losing an election
"107 Days" by Kamala Harris published by Simon & Schuster
Gerald Kaufman’s mean labelling of Labour’s 1983 manifesto, The New Hope...
There is nothing for you here
Nigel Doggett on repairing democracy
"Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century" by Fiona Hill published by Mariner Books
This fascinating memoir has fresh relevance for the...
Seeing me hanging around
Patrick Mulcahy on Palestinian generational drama
All That’s Left of You, written, produced and directed by Palestinian American Cherien Dabis, who also appears in the...