Tag: Politics
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Brilliant Maps
Ian Wright, Brilliant Maps, an atlas for curious minds, Gramta Books, 2021. Book review. I have had this book for over a year but have only just turned to it properly. I am not altogether sure about it. It’s a collation of maps from the author’s website, restyled with panache by infographic.ly. The contents range…
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Restore Nature Now and my local Lib Dem candidate
Yesterday morning I sent this e-mail to our local Lib Dem candidate. For more on the march, see: Restore Nature Now – Animal Wild Dear Mr Dillon, Thank you for your various newsletters, leaflets and hand-written letter. Anything but a repeat of (any of) the last 14 years is the main thing. My natural instincts…
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How They Broke Britain Part IV
How they Broke Britain by James O’Brien, WH Allen, 2023 And so we reach the end of James O’Brien’s brilliant, epic excoriation, of which one reader joked that he kept his copy in the fridge for safety reasons and another said that he had had to stop listening to the audiobook version whilst driving because…
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How They Broke Britain Part I
How they Broke Britain by James O’Brien, WH Allen, 2023 As one would expect if you have heard or seen the author’s radio broadcasts, this is an angry, deeply incisive, passionate and incendiary book. There are two things it cries out for, so let me get those out of the way. The first is a…
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
By Natasha Tidd, illustrated by Emily Feaver, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2023. With so much to cover in under 300 pages, beginning with the Achaemenid Persian Empire from 550 BC and ending with the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, this proceeds at a breakneck pace and is necessarily pretty dense. The author’s irreverent wit, knowledge and…
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Police & Crime Commissioners
The recent elections have made me ask a question, not for the first time. How is it that the candidates for these posts put themselves forward as representatives of political parties? Surely the police are supposed to be entirely apolitical? What am I missing here? It is a job which comes with generous remuneration, plus…