Wind and sun power not enough to replace coal
26 May 2015
A well-researched book makes the case for expanding nuclear power and explains why alternatives are not practical.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
NATO intervention and the growth of terrorism
16 May 2015
This revealing account shows how NATO's actions have helped the rise of the jihadi terrorist organisation the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
Blundering to disasters
2 May 2015
This excellent book, recently updated, is a manual of policy-making and implementation. It analyses many of the most conspicuous policy disasters committed by governments in recent decades.
Unsustainable policies
2 May 2015
This biography of the new SNP leader by David Torrance is well-informed and full of ideas. His is both appreciative and critical of his subject. His objectvity brings out the flaws in the SNP position.
Welcome to the zombie economy
16 March 2015
A new book exposes the devastating impact of austerity across society, though it places too much faith in restoring the lost world of social democracy.
Private sector myths
Professor Mariana Mazzucato has made a fascinating study of the roles of the state and private enterprise in innovation. Her book challenges the false image that business is innovative while the state is full of inertia.
Capitalist destruction
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, has written another challenging book. In this one, the Canadian author and journalist shows how capitalism is destroying our environment.
Who needs the private sector?
7 February 2015
A fascinating book studies the respective roles of the state and private enterprise in innovation. It challenges the false image that businesses are an innovative force while the state is not, and shows the opposite is closer to the truth.
Everything’s for sale
Novelist and journalist James Meek outlines how foreign companies have taken over much of our infrastructure
A dangerous idea
This book from a professor of international political economy recounts the intellectual and practical history of austerity and judges it a dangerous disaster. The author shows that austerity does not work as advertised. It does not reduce debt and does not promote growth; instead budgets are cut, economies shrink.
Consistently malign: British foreign policy since 1870
This historical survey of British foreign policy since 1870 shows it to be a consistently malign force in international affairs.
Richard Dawkins and the dangerous delusion of religion
A new book by an Oxford professor subjects religious claims and attitudes to rational, scientific examination...