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Category Archives: Books
Book Review: The Oil Road
The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello. These are straitened times for BP. The oil giant faces a slew of civil and criminal suits arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. In October, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Azeri, BP, Oil, Providence Resources
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Book Review: Political Corruption in Ireland 1922-2010, by Elaine Byrne
As is the case with unhappy families, every corrupt state is corrupt in its own way: in Ireland, an entrenched, localized “parish pump” political system; weak regulation; devout deference to authority; and a predisposition to denigrate whistleblowers as “informers” all contributed to … Continue reading
Junot Diaz — Dominican-American Psyche
Interview with American-Dominican novelist, appeared in the Sunday Business Post, September 2. Growing up in 1970s New Jersey, Junot Diaz was a self-confessed ‘book slut’. The young Dominican immigrant — his family arrived in the United States when he was … Continue reading
Book Review — How Much is Enough?
In 1928, the scion of 20th century British economics John Maynard Keynes addressed a room full of Cambridge undergraduates on the subject of ‘economic possibilities for our grandchildren’. Keynes – a far more radical thinker than contemporary caricatures of him as … Continue reading
Book Review: The Boxer and the Goalkeeper by Andy Martin
In December 1946, the French polymath and bon vivant Boris Vian, and his wife, threw a soirée in their Paris apartment. It was a boozy, bawdry affair, an intentional throwback to the all-night parties that raged in Occupied Paris. In one corner sat phenomenologist … Continue reading
Book Review: Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie.
‘Keep looking, even when there’s nothing much to see,’ Scottish writer Kathleen Jamie cautions, midway through this delicate, thoughtful collection of essays. ‘That way your eye learns what’s common, so when the uncommon appears, your eye will tell you.’ Jamie, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Kathleen Jamie, Nature, Richard Mabey, Sighlines
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Book Review: David Harvey – Rebel Cities
Last January 25, over 50,000 people occupied in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, in protest at the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Less than a week later, the number of protestors in the square and surrounding streets had swelled to more … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Sunday Business Post
Tagged David Harvey, Marxism, Rebel Cities
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Paul Mason – Kicking Off the Revolution
On a bright Saturday morning early last year, a bleary-eyed Paul Mason sat down to pen a blog for Newsnight, the BBC current affairs programme on which he is economics editor. The previous evening he had delivered a lecture on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, The Herald
Tagged Guy Debord, Newsnight, Occupy, Paul Mason, Revolution
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Review: Why It’s All Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason
‘It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism,’ Fredric Jameson, a leading theorist of post-modernism, wrote in 2003. Not anymore it isn’t. If the culmination of Francis Fukuyama’s Whiggish … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, Sunday Business Post
Tagged Egypt, Jameson, Occupy, Paul Mason, Why It's All Kicking Off Everywhere
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Review: The Black and Tans
This review of D.M. Leeson’s fascinating The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, September 2. The Black and Tans ‘have gone down in history as the British … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Ireland
Tagged Auxillaries, Black and Tans, Times Literary Supplement
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