Who benefits from the housing crisis?
A review of Bob Colenutt’s Property Lobby: The Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis
A review of Bob Colenutt’s Property Lobby: The Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis
James Bloodworth’s ‘The Myth of Meritocracy’ argues that society fails to value the working class
Hsiao-Hung Pai’s new book unflinchingly explores what the far right tells us about British politics and society
Democracy in the west is groaning under the weight of greed, inequality and political self-interest. Unfortunately Tariq Ali doesn’t have the answers
George Osborne may be a bad chancellor but he’s a good right-wing ideologue
Ed Jacobs reviews ‘The Silence of Our Friends’, by Catholic Herald deputy editor Ed West.
Is Indian democracy broken? Carl Packman looks at a new book by Ram Mashru which examines how the Indian establishment is setting back democracy.
Carl Packman reviews The Socialist Way, edited by Roy Hattersley and Kevin Hickson.
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.
Carl Packman reviews Peter Hain’s book Outside In, and finds it to be a thoroughly good profile of a conviction politician.