Book review
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Review: Weak Strongman. The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia, by Timothy Frye
A particular view of Vladimir Putin has become ever more entrenched in the English-speaking world. Now that conventional wisdom is coming in for some serious scholarly challenge.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Trade
- Identity Politics
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Review: Labours of Love. The Crisis of Care, by Madeleine Bunting
The overwhelming significance of Labours of Love is the compelling passion Bunting brings to her case for confronting our careless world. It is a crucial document for our time.
- Political Parties
- Covid-19
- Progressive Politics
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Review: What's In It For Me? Self-Interest and Political Difference, by Thomas Prosser
By demonstrating that all political viewpoints are essentially rooted in self-interest, this book will invite reflection, reconciliation and a better understanding of the common good.
- Political Parties
- Brexit
- Populism
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Review: Modern Epidemics from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19, by Salvador Macip
Salvador Macip has written an accessible survey of pandemics, charting warnings and lessons for future pandemics and the survival of the human species.
- Covid-19
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Review: Invisible Women. Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed by Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Review: Too Much and Never Enough. How my Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L Trump
There is not much about Donald Trump in this book that is a surprise. What Mary Trump does succeed in, however, is giving us clues to Donald Trump’s success.
- Populism
- USA
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Review: The Far Right Today, by Cas Mudde
The thrust of Cas Mudde's book explains how ‘the far right in general, and the populist radical right in particular’ has become normalised in the mainstream.
- Populism
- USA
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Review: The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution. Voice, Class, Nation, by Scott Hames
The chronology of devolution has been obsessively picked over in Scottish public culture, but there remain sharp differences of opinion about its causal drivers.
- Devolution
- Scotland
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Review: Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham, by Jon Bloomfield
Having worked for the city council on urban policy, Jon Bloomfield wants to tell a positive story about Birmingham.
- Immigration
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Review: The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism, by Catherine Rottenberg
Catherine Rottenberg’s book engages intensively and critically with texts that demand women ‘do better and work harder’.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
