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Review: Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough

Feb 27, 2021By Eric Lee

For anyone looking for a version of Gone Girl set in North London, this is not the book for you. Or maybe it is — the first half, I mean. Because this a clever book…Read more…

Feb 27, 2021Eric Lee

I am running for a seat on the Executive Committee of Democrats Abroad UK

Feb 26, 2021By Eric Lee

This is my candidate statement: When I launched the Bernie Sanders campaign in the U.K. in July 2015 – at the Independence Day picnic of Democrats Abroad in Portman Square – I had no idea…Read more…

Feb 26, 2021Eric Lee

Review: The Socialist Party of America, by David A. Shannon

Feb 21, 2021By Eric Lee

This book, written in 1955, is essential reading today for anyone interested in democratic socialism. Democratic Socialists of America, one of the successor organizations of the Socialist Party, is…Read more…

Feb 21, 2021Eric Lee

Review: So You Want to Publish a Book? by Anne Trubek

Feb 17, 2021By Eric Lee

As someone who both writes and publishes books, I was keen to read a well-reviewed, short text aimed at people like myself. I was not disappointed. This is a clear, well-written introduction to the…Read more…

Feb 17, 2021Eric Lee

Review: From the Red Army to SOE, by Major L H Manderstam with Roy Heron

Feb 13, 2021By Eric Lee

Let me begin by saying that Major L H Manderstam is not someone I’d want to invite over for dinner. This memoir, published in 1985 shortly after the author’s death, is full of obnoxious…Read more…

Feb 13, 2021Eric Lee

Review: Jews Don’t Count, by David Baddiel

Feb 10, 2021By Eric Lee

This is a brilliant book and I encourage all my non-Jewish friends to read it. My Jewish friends will not need to read it because what Baddiel writes — and he writes really well —…Read more…

Feb 10, 2021Eric Lee

Review: Slough House, by Mick Herron

Feb 9, 2021By Eric Lee

This, the seventh book in the Jackson Lamb series, does not disappoint. I imagine most everyone who reads it has already devoured the previous six books. For us, the return of Lamb and his…Read more…

Feb 9, 2021Eric Lee

100 years on, the Georgian experiment remains relevant

Feb 8, 2021By Eric Lee

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921.  This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians.  Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the…Read more…

Feb 8, 2021Eric Lee

100 years on, the Georgian experiment remains relevant

Feb 8, 2021By Eric Lee

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in February 1921.  This is significant today, and not only for Georgians and Russians.  Back in 1921, Georgia was ruled by the…Read more…

Feb 8, 2021Eric Lee

Review: The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating, by Gary Taubes

Feb 3, 2021By Eric Lee

Nearly twenty years ago, science journalist Gary Taubes wrote an article for the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times reporting that some eminent scientists were beginning to re-think the…Read more…

Feb 3, 2021Eric Lee

Kennedy, not Johnson, led the US into the quagmire

Feb 2, 2021By Eric Lee

This letter was published in the February 2021 issue of Literary Review. In his otherwise excellent review of The Tyranny of Merit (LR, December 2020 – January 2021), Andrew Adonis challenges…Read more…

Feb 2, 2021Eric Lee

Review: Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Führer, by Mark Felton

Feb 1, 2021By Eric Lee

According to author Mark Felton, the people put in charge of keeping Adolf Hitler safe and well actually created the modern practice of body-guarding, sometimes known as ‘close…Read more…

Feb 1, 2021Eric Lee

Thomas Friedman is wrong about ‘democratic socialism’

Jan 25, 2021By Eric Lee

I sent this letter off to the New York Times two weeks ago. They have not published it. But I thought some of you might find it of interest. Thomas Friedman in his column “Trump…Read more…

Jan 25, 2021Eric Lee

Review: The Catch, by Mick Herron

Jan 22, 2021By Eric Lee

While fans wait for the arrival of the seventh Slough House novel by British author Mick Herron, he has thrown some crumbs to his audience with a series of novellas — this being the most…Read more…

Jan 22, 2021Eric Lee

Review: Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, by Anne Applebaum

Jan 21, 2021By Eric Lee

Anne Applebaum is a great historian, a terrific journalist and a strong opponent of authoritarian regimes everywhere. But this book disappoints. It begins with a party she and her Polish husband…Read more…

Jan 21, 2021Eric Lee

Review: The Drop & The List, by Mick Herron

Jan 21, 2021By Eric Lee

When I first discovered Mick Herron’s ‘Slough House’ series of books, I got completely hooked, and read all six of them in a binge lasting 24 days. And now, like so many other fans…Read more…

Jan 21, 2021Eric Lee

Review: Agent Sonya, by Ben MacIntyre

Jan 15, 2021By Eric Lee

This is the story of Ursula Kuczynski, a Soviet spy who was instrumental in ensuring that Stalin was able to build an atomic bomb. So at first glance, not an entirely sympathetic character. And yet…Read more…

Jan 15, 2021Eric Lee

Review: I am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes

Jan 9, 2021By Eric Lee

A young Saudi man, radicalised by the experience of seeing his father beheaded for his iconoclastic views, grows into the world’s most fearsome terrorist — known as Saracen.  Deciding to take…Read more…

Jan 9, 2021Eric Lee

Review: SOE: An outline history of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46, by M.R.D. Foot

Jan 8, 2021By Eric Lee

Few people knew as much about the highly-secretive SOE – whose task, according to Churchill, was to ‘set Europe ablaze’ – as M.R.D. Foot. This short book is an introduction to…Read more…

Jan 8, 2021Eric Lee

Review: The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, by John Marks

Dec 28, 2020By Eric Lee

First published more than 40 years ago, this book tells the unbelievable story of the CIA’s experiments with mind control. Some of these even pre-date the founding of the CIA itself. Its…Read more…

Dec 28, 2020Eric Lee
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