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The most recent demonstration in London, against the ongoing occupation of Iraq once again showed that most of those who oppose the US and U...

First published in 1942, Gordon Childe’s classic work “What happened in history” is an attempt to explain to the ordinary, non-academic pers...

Everyone is either talking about this novel, or about to start talking about it, and that is neither a bad thing, nor a surprising thing. Wh...

This is science fiction on a grand scale. When I say grand, I mean big. Everything about this novel is big. Firstly it’s 646 pages long. S...

The Roman Republic was a mass of contradictions, on the one hand it preached democracy and the power of the ordinary voter, on the other, it...

Iain Banks writes two types of books. Science Fiction (as Iain M Banks) and non-SF. But his novels can also be put into two other categori...

In the later years of the 19th Century, and the early decades of the twentieth, right-wing politicians led campaigns full of prejudice, lie...

Well I don't care if you think that it's simplistic humour, I like Terry Pratchett's discworld series. They are nothing but hum...

I was given Simon Winchester's book Krakatoa for Christmas and anyone else who had the same present must have remarked on the coiniciden...

Rosa Luxemburg is one of my heroines. Her revolutionary zeal, her lifelong confidence that "another world is possible", her powe...