Sunday, 22 July 2012

Review: Daniel Kahnemann, Thinking Fast and Slow

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There is an awful lot of Experimental Psychology in the world; some of it must be true. Over the decades, the Military has been its biggest ...
Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Review: Owen Jones, Chavs. The Demonization of the Working Class

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This is a passionate, highly readable polemic. It makes a forceful case quoting from politicians in reflective mode, from Fleet Street stori...
Monday, 2 July 2012

Review: Daron Acemoglu & James A Robinson, Why Nations Fail

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I am not convinced. This book comes with 14 pre-publication product endorsements, five of them from Nobel laureates, so the weight of world ...
Monday, 18 June 2012

Review: Bernard Wasserstein, On The Eve

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Some years ago, I visited the Museé d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme in Paris for an exhibition of the photographs of Roman Vishniac ...
Sunday, 10 June 2012

Review: Matthew Lynn, Greece, The €uro, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis

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I nearly stopped reading this book on page 3. It felt like it was being addressed to American readers and therefore taking into account thei...

Review: Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat

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Ben Macintyre is another journalist who knows how to do research and how to write. The result is a fascinating book, both thorough and highl...

Review: Oliver Bullough, Let Our Fame Be Great

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When journalists are good they are very, very good. Oliver Bullough is terrific. His combination of historical research and contemporary rep...