Cribbin’ from Mr. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall: Hotel California and the Empire of LibertyAnother damned thick book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon? - Attributed to the Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, 1781Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
The right to capital flight: ‘Globalists’ by Quinn Slobodian“Against Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms — of speech, of worship, from fear, from want — neoliberals posed the four freedoms of capital, goods…Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020
Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin: the novel that predicted Incels?‘As a woman is above a worm, So is a man above a woman… As a woman is above a worm, So is a worm above a Christian’Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019
Making the Unseen Seen: Economics in Two Lessons by John QuigginHow many lessons do you need in economics? Listening to the impenetrable jargon of commentators in the media, you might think you need a…Jun 9, 2019Jun 9, 2019
No Friend But the Mountains‘The prisoner constructs his identity against the concept of freedom. His imagination is always preoccupied with the world beyond the…Jan 31, 2019Jan 31, 2019
The logic of solidarity and the struggle to redistribute hopeAs a organiser for the Federal Public Service union, one of the most valued activities I could undertake was the ‘walkthrough’. This was…Nov 20, 2018Nov 20, 2018
A riddle wrapped in an enigma — Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William TaubmanI commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution by reading the latest biography of the man who ended it, and arguably…Sep 4, 2018Sep 4, 2018
