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Milo Miller introduces Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group
In an excerpt from the preface to Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group, editor Milo Miller shares context about the group and the impetus for the book which brings together, for the first time,...
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The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism – review
In The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism, Geoffrey Hodgson traces the roots of modern capitalism to financial and legal institutions established in England in the 17th...
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The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it – review
In The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it, Liam Byrne examines the UK’s deep-seated inequality which has channelled wealth away from ordinary people (disproportionately youth and...
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In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s – review
Margaret Galvan‘s In Visible Archives explores the political power of archival material in shaping feminist and queer futures. Applying archival studies and comics scholarship to work from the 1980s by...
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Uncomfortably Off – review
In Uncomfortably Off, Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell examine Britain’s top 10 per cent of earners, arguing that growing inequalities negatively affect them in terms of anxiety about jobs,...
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Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group – review
In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group. This vital anthology...
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Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age – review
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “mental...
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Unchecked Power? – review
In Unchecked Power?, Alison L. Young scrutinises the impact of Boris Johnson’s government on British democracy, specifically its strained relationship with the courts and constitutional reforms....
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How Did Britain Come to This? – review
In How Did Britain Come to This?, Gwyn Bevan critiques a century of systemic governance failures in Britain in areas from healthcare and housing to privatisation and outsourcing. Bevan’s sharp and...
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The Liberal Democrats: From hope to despair to where? – review
In The Liberal Democrats, David Cutts, Andrew Russell, and Joshua Townsley surveys the party’s fluctuating fortunes and identity struggles within Britain’s turbulent political landscape. According to...
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