What's Left?: How the Left Lost its Way, (Paperback)

from john257hopper

This is a polemical work and as such, the tone is a little shrill in places. Its central argument however is very sound and well made. This is that too many people on the liberal-left in the last decade and a half or so in particular have allowed hatred of the West and in particular of America, t...

from joe1402

A brilliant book that demonstrates how the British left has lost its way and formed alliances with the Islamists and tyrants of the Middle East at the expense of the people who should be its natural allies - women, trade unionists, liberal intellectuals, and secularists.

from jahn

An angry and eloquent attack on those who turn their attention away from perpetrators of atrocities, as many did when those made by Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein became undeniable, to find fault with the victims and their defenders. The book is named "What's Left" indicating that the left...

from PaulStott

Should be essential reading for anyone who is, or has been, involved in left wing politics in the UK. You won't like it all, you won't agree with it all, but you will - or more accurately should - learn from it.

from ElectricRay

"What's Left" is a crie de coeur from a man of the left who has come to believe that the principles have abandoned his position, and from that perspective it positively zings. Nick Cohen writes well - brutally - but fairly: he is still prepared, as he goes, to confront and acknowledge potential c...