News
Who benefits from the housing crisis?
A review of Bob Colenutt's Property Lobby: The Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis
book review
The end of Christianity in the Middle East?
Ed Jacobs reviews 'The Silence of Our Friends', by Catholic Herald deputy editor Ed West.
Review: Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India
Is Indian democracy broken? Carl Packman looks at a new book by Ram Mashru which examines how the Indian establishment is setting back democracy.
Book review: The Socialist Way: Social Democracy in Contemporary Britain
Carl Packman reviews The Socialist Way, edited by Roy Hattersley and Kevin Hickson.
Review: ‘Unhitched: the trial of Christopher Hitchens’ by Richard Seymour
Seymour is way off the mark with this book. His failure to grasp Hitchens's capability for political modification is symptomatic of the curious and dogmatic political tradition that Seymour belongs to.
Outside In: A conviction politician, and a good read to boot
Carl Packman reviews Peter Hain’s book Outside In, and finds it to be a thoroughly good profile of a conviction politician.