Politics

Since 2015 I have been reading political books and developing my political opinions. In my earlier posts, my political ignorance is on full display - my knowledge and understanding increases as the posts approach the present, but I still have much to learn.


2015

My Politics Phase Begins

Party Political Broadcasts 2015

Meet Your Overlords: The Conservative Cabinet

Don't Vote UKIP

Religious Fundamentalism

The Neoliberal Revolution


2016

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI)

'How Corrupt is Britain?' by David Whyte

And Boris Said Unto The People

Brexit Thoughts

The Communist Manifesto


2017

1917 + 100

Theresa May and the Coming Doom

'First as Tragedy, Then as Farce' by Slavoj Žižek


2018

Operation Ajax

'Cameron at 10' by Seldon and Snowden


2019

'A History of Modern Britain' by Andrew Marr


2020

The Memoirs of Thatcher and Blair


2021

'Statecraft' by Margaret Thatcher 

'No Such Thing As Society' by Andy McSmith

'A Very British Coup' by Chris Mullin

'The Prince' by Machiavelli

'Panodrama' by Tommy Robinson/Stephen Yaxley-Lennon

'Hearts and Minds' by Oliver Letwin

'Red Famine' by Anne Applebaum

'The Road to Wigan Pier' by George Orwell

'Politics: Between the Extremes' by Nick Clegg

'Terrorism and Communism' by Leon Trotsky

'Dangerous Hero' by Tom Bower

'Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy' by Kerry-Anne Mendoza 


2022

'Adults in the Room' by Yanis Varoufakis

'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden

'Flat Earth News' by Nick Davies; 'Bad News' by Mark Pack

'Failures of State' by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott

'Greater' by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis


2023

'Fighting for Life' by Isabel Hardman

'Strange Rites' by Tara Isabella Burton


2024

'The Righteous Mind' by Jonathan Haidt


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