The Searchers by Andy Beckett: ‘A vivid profile of left MPs, down but not out’
Andy Beckett’s new book is, he writes in the introduction, “the story of a group of political explorers…
Book review
Cruddas book review: ‘Intriguing spin on party tradition, but a pamphlet would do’
Jon Cruddas has written a book. It’s titled A Century of Labour, and it aims to trace the…
Book review – All In: How We Build a Country That Works by Lisa Nandy MP
Why do MPs write books? Most books by MPs owe their existence to a combination of the following…
Book review: Out of the Blue by James Heale and Harry Cole
I don’t need to recap the events of Liz Truss’s glass-floor shattering, 44-day premiership – after all, it…
Book review: Is Socialism Possible in Britain? By Andrew Murray
With his most recent book, Is Socialism Possible in Britain, former Jeremy Corbyn advisor Andrew Murray has done fine…
Book review – Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds MP
Nick Thomas-Symonds’ new biography of Harold Wilson is titled The Winner, which should give you a fair idea of…
Review: Blue Labour, The Politics of the Common Good by Maurice Glasman
I was somewhat surprised to realise that Maurice Glasman, who founded Blue Labour in 2009 had not, in…
Review: Labour’s Civil Wars by Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice
The Forde Report’s been published, the national executive committee (NEC) ballots are dropping, and Sam Tarry is off…
Review: Our Bloc by James Schneider – a plan to win for the British left
James Schneider, Jeremy Corbyn’s former comms director, has written a book. It is short, lucid, and pleasantly free…
Left Out by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire review – inside story of Labour under Corbyn
Left Out by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire benefited from there being no shortage of odd, dull-witted and…
