It was fun while it lasted, neighbours meeting at a safe distance whilst clapping for carers. This was during Britain's first Covid-19 lockdown in March 20...
‘The premise of this book’, writes the author, ‘is that humans are self-interested and that this manifests itself politically’. In other words, because human b...
Salvador Macip has written an accessible survey of pandemics during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, charting warnings and lessons for future pandemic...
Universal basic services or universal basic income?
In their new book, Anna Coote and Andrew Percy argue that progressive policy should focus more on essent...
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male. Caroline Criado Perez describ...
In June 1999, Fred Trump Sr., a successful builder and rentier in New York City, died aged ninety‐three. He left his near $1 billion fortune to his four surviv...
When Donald Trump was elected President of the USA in 2016, a book from 1935 became an unlikely bestseller in the States. Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here...
The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation, by Scott Hames. Edinburgh University Press. 336 pp. £24.99
The chronology of devolution ...
The seemingly never-ending rumpus over antisemitism in the Labour Party has been capturing headlines for over four years now. This controversy is closely entwi...
At a recent lunch, discussion turned to the question of who
had been the country’s worst ever prime minister. The usual suspects were
rolled out: Lord North, t...
In Jonathan Coe's recent novel Middle England, one of the characters offers this reflection: ‘A more cheering thought rose up: the realisation that here, on th...
We are most certainly living in difficult democratic times, with populism on the up. Any lingering complacency over the health of liberal, representative democ...
