Part of an occasional series on this blog where I try to remember all the books I am re/reading at the moment and why
Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media by Herbert and Chomsky - media grip on the public mind dissected
Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman - feminist critique of democratic theory
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees - how a population comes to see hatred of other people as politically acceptable - parallels with a well known fascist party in UK
Who Runs Britain? by Robert Peston - especially helpful on the pensions crisis
My Life with Nye - Jennie Lee - a bit of hero-worship for the founder of the OU and her husband
Without knowledge of our history our present is incomprehensible, and the quality of our future imponderable.
