Reading and Raging (2) by Dennis Hamley
It's odd. I started writing this blog in February. We then spent the last week before we came home from Down Under without wi-fi. And when we came home, I found my unscheduled draft had disappeared. Just like that. A blogging mystery. But no matter. It consisted mainly of a quick description of Naomi Klein's amazing book This Changes Everything. However, I wasn't to know that the Guardian was about to do a huge feature, including a part-serialisation which treats the book as seriously as it deserves. So I won't add my own puny comments - except to say that the book is as important as the Guardian says it is. Perhaps it will start at last a movement powerful enough to dislodge the forces pledged to destroy us all. I'm waiting for the inevitable neo-liberal backlash. Not yet though - and could it be that there are signs that for the first time they might find it difficult. The Daily Telegraph gave the book a rave review and maybe that's a hint that the ne...