The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
The EU: An Obituary
by John R Gillingham
(Verso, £12.99)
THIS is an unusual book.
It puts a US free-market case for a British exit from the EU and argues that this could provide an opportunity for remodelling the union on more classically neoliberal lines.
MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism moved from the margins to the centre
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT


