What can we learn from the history of dueling, footbinding and slavery?
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This Isn’t The End of UK Electoral Reform
The British people didn't vote in favour of first-past-the-post, but against the Alternative Vote method, and the "Yes" campaign.
Read More »Book Review: In the Wet by Nevil Shute
A 1950s futuristic novel sheds interesting light on the politics and ideas of the time.
Read More »Book Review: Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
Should come with a health warning: could cause dangerous rage.
Read More »Book Review: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton
Why is the human race so oblivious to the danger of climate change, even when it is staring it in the face?
Read More »Book Review: World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse by Lester Brown
Water - that's the biggest problem you need to worry about. The aquifers are being drained fast.
Read More »Book Review: Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt
An almost lost story of a spectacular feat in an America that looks much like today's, even though this was the 1890s.
Read More »Book Review: The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The facts, and the details, of just how much we've lost, in traditional knowledge and ecological reality.
Read More »A Minimum Wage is Not Enough: We Need a Living Wage For All
Poverty pay doesn't even make economic sense.
Read More »Book Review: One Less Car: Bicycling and Politics of Automobility by Zach Furness
From the Situationists to punk and feminist zines, a sometimes surprising cultural and political history.
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