Straight talk on trade
20 December 2018
This well-argued book from Professor Dani Rodrik examines the effects of globalisation and criticises the economic justfication for it.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Active policy for Britain
20 December 2018
In this book Professor Philip Whyman makes the case for rebuilding Britain as an advanced industrial economy by rejecting options that tie the government to EU control.
Welcome to Moneyland
Globalisation is really about keeping capital accumulation hidden from scrutiny…
Chuck Chequers: the single market by another name
1 November 2018
A devastating critique of the Chequers plan shows how it would bind the UK to EU rules with no say in them. Those compromises are unncessary and would not implement the referendum result.
Handbook for leavers
A new book marshals the arguments for Brexit, and exposes the ambitions of the EU…
Capital vs. workers
IMF critic Joseph Stiglitz is back with a new book about how globalisation harms workers everywhere…
Populism and reaction
Despite the supposed threat to democracy from populism, the anti-populist reaction is worse…
Populism and EU reaction
2 April 2018
This book argues that despite the supposed threat to democracy from populist movements, the anti-populist reaction is worse; a reactionary viewpoint characterising populist movements as xenophobic, anti-democratic and totalitarian.
Positive thinking
At last, an optimistic book setting out how Brexit can make life better for Britain…
Diary of a nobody
With Britain’s independence movement facing new challenges, a fresh book looks how to fight, and win…
A new vision needed
19 December 2017
This report from IPPR gives a good, detailed analysis of our situation. It rightly suggests we need a new economic approach, but says too little about what must be done to put things right.
Brexit: how the Nobodies beat the Somebodies
11 December 2017
This slim but jewel-packed volume that sets out to explain how Britain voted to leave the EU – as seen by a relatively isolated campaigner in one of Britain’s most Remain-friendly cities, Brighton.
Safer out than in?
23 November 2017
Veterans for Britain has produced an extremely useful free pamphlet showing that leaving the EU will have little if any impact on Britain's national security or counter-terrorism capabilities.
What has the EU ever done for us?
6 November 2017
A new book looks at the key ways the EU has changed Britain - and it's not good.
How crashes happen
There’s only one way to avoid financial crashes: break the power of finance capitalism…
Dunkirk: the film and the book
16 October 2017
Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk, is an evocative but unusual portrayal of the evacuation of the British and French armies from the French port in June 1940. Joshua Levine’s fascinating book gives a more complete picture of why Dunkirk is of such singular importance.
Say goodbye to EU law...and no to EU liability
2 October 2017
There is no credible argument for the UK to pay for the EU pension fund deficit or the EU’s ongoing programmes after Brexit according to a new pamphlet.
Downward spiral
With 20:20 hindsight, a former chairman of the Financial Services Authority looks at debt…and the EU
Take back our fish!
Brexit means we are no longer beholden to the EU. As far as fisheries are concerned, we are now in charge.
Keep it clean
As negotiations on Brexit begin, a new pamphlet cuts through the hard/soft waffle that dominates the media…
The long shadow of war
A journalist looks at the consequences – throughout the Middle East – of the 2003 invasion of Iraq…
Why the euro was bound to fail
Economic journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson explain why the EU is failing: because the single currency was not a progressive project and never could be.
Panama - the offshore scandal exposed
Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer work for the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. In early 2015 Obermayer received a message, “Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data?” This book is the story of what happened next.
Brexit stories: threats and contradictions
24 October 2016
This account of the Remain campaign by David Cameron’s PR man opens up a fascinating insight into its fundamental contradictions.
A different game
18 September 2016
Dave Roberts celebrates the real ethic of British football in a new book, Home & Away, through a grand tour of Britain with a collective of working class non-league supporters.
No case for war
The Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war finally reported in July. The evidence itself speaks volumes…