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Why Populists Are Winning and How to Beat Them by Liam Byrne review – a surprisingly original prescription
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (1263+ words) The Guardian Why Populists Are Winning and How to Beat Them by Liam Byrne review – a surprisingly original prescription A former New Labour minister tackles the question of our times with rigour and verve – but blindspots remain At first glance,…...
Politics Without Politicians by Hélène Landemore review – power to the people
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (216+ words) Can a radical proposal to get rid of career politicians really be implemented? No Donald Trump, Nigel Farage or Liz Truss; no Zack Polanski, Jacinda Ardern or Volodymyr Zelenskyy either. No political parties and no elections, but instead a random…...
The Colour of Home by Sajid Javid review – from one hostile environment to another
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (421+ words) The ex-Home Secretary’s memoir of childhood racism is intimate and moving but raises difficult political questions Sajid Javid’s memoir traces his journey from being a frightened child in racist 1970s Rochdale to becoming a leading member of a political party that…...
Richard Osman among authors backing call to issue library card to all UK babies
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (279+ words) The proposal, supported by Kate Mosse and Philip Pullman, aims to make public library membership a national birthright Richard Osman, Kate Mosse and Sir Philip Pullman are among authors calling for all babies to automatically receive a library card at…...
Jonathan Coe: ‘I was a Tory until I read Tony Benn’
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (514+ words) The author on getting hooked on Flann O’Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down My earliest reading memory Not my earliest reading memory, exactly, but my earliest memory of reading with avid enjoyment: The…...
Dear England: Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate review – an exercise in passive-aggressive self-justification
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (321+ words) The former England coach could’ve written a great book – instead he’s produced an AI-style word-sludge of generic leadership chat This is an oddly dull, oddly irresistible football book. Even its title is confusing. Dear England is already the name of…...
One of Us by Elizabeth Day review – the inner lives of Tory MPs
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (1399+ words) Driven by a whodunnit-ish plot, this state-of-the-nation sequel to The Party features a family at the centre of British political lifeElizabeth Day is the right person to write a state-of-the-nation novel about our society at a point when so many…...
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (1179+ words) A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastropheThe sheer Englishness of Ian McEwan’s fiction may not be fully visible…...