Philip Legrain – Immigrants – Your Country Needs Them
Philip Legrain’s book documents the case for immigration through cultural, economic and humanitarian necessity. Many myths are dispelled here including the supposed benefits culture that attracts “lazy” migrants and the “stealing” of jobs by economic migrants. Legrain’s polemic is very timely in an age of great uncertainty and propaganda from the right wing in politics … Continue reading
Alex Perry – Falling off the Edge
This was probably the strangest book on anti-capitalism I’ve read. The author is a foreign correspondent for Time magazine and has been to many war zones and poverty stricken areas around the world. As a result what we have is a loosely connected series of stories focusing primarily on human interest elements from a writer … Continue reading
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Felicity Lawrence – Eat Your Heart Out
Posted by redosiris on 1 May, 2011 · Leave a Comment
There are parts of this book where you never want to eat anything again. Personally, I eat and enjoy meat, and I have always known I do it from a point of indefensible hypocrisy. This book confirms my worst fears about the increasingly globalised food industry. It follows on well from Stuffed and Starved (Raj … Continue reading →
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