Issue No.
6
October 2007
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| Welcome to October’s Review of Books |
 Tim Black
Earlier this month, David Cameron, leader of the UK Tory Party, told his party conference: ‘The next Conservative government will begin a revolution…’ Make sure you are sitting comfortably before I tell you what the Cameroonian Revolution will consist of: the use of tax incentives to encourage Brits to use low-energy lightbulbs and eco-friendly windmills in order to save on electricity. So, when Cameron uses the word ‘revolution’, he means the number of revolutions it takes to screw in a bulb rather than a revolution in ideas, thought, action. At a time when politics feels flat and uninteresting, Mick Hume looks back to the Russian Revolution in this issue of the spiked review of books: to a time when metaphorical lightbulbs lit up in the minds of men and women who envisaged new ways to organise society. This is no Red-eyed nostalgia trip; rather Hume re-reads John Reed to see if there are lessons for today from that ‘torrent-like’ rising 90 years ago. We also have Frank Furedi on the Israel lobby, an exclusive on five books on terrorism that Britons are not allowed to read, and much, much more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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