Outside In: A conviction politician, and a good read to boot
Carl Packman reviews Peter Hain’s book Outside In, and finds it to be a thoroughly good profile of a conviction politician.
Carl Packman
Website Carl is a health researcher; he writes book reviews for Left Foot Forward. Carl has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Tribune Magazine, and The Philosopher's Magazine and blogs regularly at Though Cowards Flinch and Liberal Conspiracy. He is currently writing a book on consumer debt.
Class, inequality and the state at the Fabian conference
Carl Packman reports back on the class, inequality and the state session at the Fabian Society New Year Conference.
Richard Murphy’s new book is itself courageous, and ambitious as well
Carl Packman reviews Richard Murphy’s new book, “The Courageous State”, and finds it to be an ambitious defence of the role of the State in the world today.
What is patriotism in Britain today?
Carl Packman reviews Demos’s new report on what patriotism means in Britain today.
Tangled Up In Blue: A straightforward profile of a confusing man
Carl Packman reviews Rowenna Davis’ new book on Glasman and Blue Labour, and finds that the politics behind the damaged goods remain of importance.
The Purple Book: Bland and tragic
Carl Packman reviews ‘The Purple Book’, concluding: “On what the book did say it was bland; on what it didn’t say it was tragic.”