New review of Churchill's Empire

Prof Christophe Maule has written a very kind review of Churchill's Empire and has published it on his blog.

Fans of Eric Hobsbawm will be pleased to see this interview of him by Jeremy Paxman.

I've been quoted in the Western Mail a couple of times in the last week or two, once on Lloyd George and Churchill and once on the 1926 General Strike.

Interesting blog here from the Libyan writer Mohammad Al Asfar, recommended to me by one of my readers.

Here is a review I wrote of Ben Shephard's The Long Road Home which appeared in this week's New York Times Book Review.

Save Our Forests

Still time to sign this petition to stop the government privatising national forests.

Celebrity endorsements ...

According to an interview he did with the New York Times, Mick Jagger has my book on his Kindle ... Martha Nussbaum has also made some nice comments.