Issue No.
25
June 2009
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| Welcome to June’s review of books |
 Tim Black
Who really carried out 9/11? Who killed Princess Diana? Did Israeli lobbyists coax Bush’s neocon cabal to destroy large parts of the Middle East? These conspiracy-theory questions are frequently mocked by mainstream commentators, who look down on the ignorant cliques that spread warped stories about the world. Yet as Frank Furedi argues in this issue of the spiked review of books, at the same time many commentators buy into conspiratorial thinking - the idea that there is some hidden and ‘real’ agenda behind every headline and every politician’s utterance. Furedi calls for less simplistic ridicule of cranky conspiracy theories and more vision about how public debate might be humanised. Also this month we have Jennie Bristow on a self-confessed bad mother, Philip Hammond on what al-Qaeda has in common with environmentalism, Neil Davenport on China’s factory girls, Nathalie Rothschild on why travelling the world won’t save the world, and much more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration: Jan Bowman.] |
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