Sam Freedman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sam Freedman

Reading Peter Hennessy's magisterial "Winds of Change" on Britain in the early 60s (the third in his series on postwar Britain). I hadn't clocked before quite how strongly Labour (and Gaitskell) came out against EEC membership (as it was then) when first proposed by Macmillan.

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That was one of the most enjoyable books I've read on cinema - up there with Peter Biskind's "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls". More criticism than history but there's some good tidbits in there.

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RIP the author of the best named memoir ever ("Auto da Fay") https://t.co/9qPKwo5hzH

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Both twins avidly reading the Stephen King books I gave them so this holiday is already a triumph ("It" for boy twin; "Different Seasons" for girl twin).

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@David_C_Cobb I'm a stakeholder in the economy but I'm not going to try and tell Sharon White how to run John Lewis. (Also all education systems are designed by people who did well academically and they're all different so that can't be the issue...)

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@WalkTheLinesLDN @RobDotHutton 72 when he won his last medal. 64 when he won his last gold. The oldest British gold medalist was showjumper Nick Skelton in Rio at 58.

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If you want a brilliant and balanced assessment of Gorbachev, and to understand why he's widely disliked in Russia and admired in the West, then read William Taubman's biography. Just happens to be 99p on the kindle at the moment too.

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@mrchrisaddison @FitzcarraldoEds Try Joshua Cohen and Mathias Enard too. On the non-fiction side I'd recommend Maria Stepanova "In Memory of Memory": Vriginie Despentes "King Kong Theory"; and my all time favourite book "Second Hand Time" by Svetlana Alexievich.

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I reviewed @gelliottmorris's "Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why we Need Them" for The Guardian https://t.co/StLUjpJlfQ

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Around 50 Tory backbenchers abstained on the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. Including Theresa May, David Davis, Liam Fox, Robert Jenrick and many of those who've criticised Johnson including Jesse Norman, Tobias Ellwood and Tom Tugendhat.