Is Red Plenty possible?
The planned economy and the struggle for socialism Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford, mixes fact and fiction to describe post-second…
Category: Review
Review: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
Reading Arundhati Roy’s collection of lectures and articles about India could make you want to weep, or to emit the ‘feral…
Film Review: Slumdog Millionaire
Directed by Danny Boyle You would expect a film that has won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and…
British rule in Asia: the poisoned legacy
The British empire dominated South and South East Asia, maintaining its power through the cynical manipulation of ethnic and religious…