Five Ideas to Fight For : How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why it Matters (Paperback)

from JessicaGalleske

It took me literally months to read this book. Normally it takes me one month, if that. Maybe it was because the first two parts of the book were so boring, I couldn't read more than a few pages at a time before getting incredibly bored. The rest of the book was really good though, and flowed nic...

from Avogt221

I'll start this review by saying that after reading this book, I suspect that I would very much enjoy meeting the author at a dinner party. Based on his career and the few stories he put in the book, I suspect that the stories that he could tell would be fascinating. I only wish that the book had...

from ryven

THE SUBJECT: Human Rights. Equality. Free Speech. Privacy. The Rule of Law. These are the ideas Lord Anthony Lester presents as under threat today, as well as what must be done to counteract the threat. THE SCRIBE: A British barrister and politician, Anthony Lester is Baron Lester of Herne Hill, ...

from pomo58

Five Ideas to Fight For is Anthony Lester's case for continuing the fight for five essential ideas which together constitute the foundation of any society that claims to care about it's citizens. Lester has long been engaged in the fight and has been instrumental in many of the changes in British...