GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
The real threat to peace in Asia
CARLOS MARTINEZ recommends TJ Coles's book on the global dangers posed by US sabre-rattling in the region
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Fire and Fury: How the US Isolates North Korea, Encircles China and Risks Nuclear War in Asia
by TJ Coles
(Clairview Books, £10.99)
THIS short book by British academic TJ Coles will perhaps not receive as much attention as another recently released work on Donald Trump that shares its name. It is, nonetheless, an important and insightful book, providing as it does an alternative viewpoint on the escalating crisis over Korea and in promoting an urgent message of peace.
Coles's primary aim is to dismantle the idea that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a serious danger to regional and global stability and that it is an aggressive nuclear state that deserves to be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” as threatened by the US president.
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