January 2022 – The Brazen Head

Posted on January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 by Leslie Jones

Canon, to the right of them

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory Gurminder K Bhambra & John Holmwood, Polity, 2021, 257 pp, £16 LESLIE JONES is unconvinced by a clever piece of 'decolonizing' advocacy The toxic legacy of European colonialism and imperialism underpins the 'populist ressentiment and rejection of multiculturalism' of the white working class in Europe and the USA [i], according to Bhambra…

Posted on January 10, 2022January 11, 2022 by Derek Turner

Crises of a confidence-man

The Man Who Conned the World: Victor Lustig Christopher Sandford, The History Press, 2021, 300pp, £20 DEREK TURNER is forced to admire a brilliant rogue Christopher Sandford is an acknowledged expert on the cultural history of the twentieth century, who has written to scintillating effect on subjects from the Rolling Stones to Arthur Conan Doyle,…