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Useful overview of the Blair legacy, a little short on detail I found this quite an entertaining and reasonably informative read. Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson, both economic journalists with the Guardian newspaper, have a lively style, and they are mostly critical of the Blair years. I was impressed by their fairly balanced account, despite their left-leaning background, which I do broadly sympathise with. They make clear that on many policy issues in the UK, choices can and have to be made. For example, either we continue to fight expensive wars overseas and... more info
enjoyable and stimulating critique I've nothing to add to the excellent review by PhilosopherKing except to say that the economics can be quite tough going at times -- nothing worse than what you need for the business pages of a broadsheet, but challenging for those like me who don't have any economics training. And nothing yet has happened under Brown to belie their gloomy assessment.
Pretty poor This is an underwhelming book, and I'm not really sure what the authors were trying to achieve in writing it. As a previous reviewer says, if the material the book is based on is news to you then where have you been. there's nothing new in it. Overall this is a very negative critique of the Blair era. Whilst I'm open to hearing reasonable arguments about why things haven't gone to plan since 1997, this is real one-note stuff. It seems that pretty much EVERYTHING has been done the wrong way, but there's... more info
On the money Given that potential disasters that are already starting to become apparent with Northern Rock and Barclays, the authors' assessment of "Bulls*it Britain" is already being proven to be true. Although no one has a crystal ball to predict the future of the economy, the obvious train-wreck that has become Britain, drowning in debt and engaging in pure fantasy about the strength of the economy gives many pointers as to the disasters to come. The authors' present a picture of an absolutely deluded country that... more info
