Idiots and fools
Subscriber contentBy Chris Trotter in Books
Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013
Is Italy’s Beppe Grillo a model for politics’ future?
Workers in the Margins by Cybèle Locke and Jagged Seas by David Grant - review
Subscriber contentBy Chris Trotter in Books
Issue 3786 27th Nov 2012
Cybèle Locke’s experience was a primary motivation in writing her history of postwar union activism – and the book is all the better for it.
Barbecue at Phil's place
By Chris Trotter in Politics
Issue 3742 28th Jan 2012
Chris Trotter finds a former Labour leader reflecting on the fickle roll of History's wheel.
easter
By Chris Trotter in Uncategorized
Issue 3336 17th Apr 2004
American journalist Daniel Pearl was forced to recite these words: "My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am Jewish." And then he was beheaded. Why?
The emperor's old clothes
By Chris Trotter in Uncategorized
Issue 3329 28th Feb 2004
TALK OF THE DEVIL: Encounters with seven dictators, by Riccardo Orizio (Random, $27.95).