What We Are Reading: October 2025

What We Are Reading: October 2025

James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935) packed a great deal of both writing and left-wing activism into a short life. From an Aberdeenshire farming background, he worked in journalism, wrote fiction admired by H. G. Wells, and helped set up the Aberdeen Soviet. His trilogy, A Scots Quair, is still read in Scotland. He joined the military for pragmatic rather than patriotic...

Boris the Blowhard

Boris the Blowhard

Boris Johnson now profits, by way of premature memoir, off a career built on family connections and an ability to soothe voters with pleasant, but empty phrases. Behold the blowhard.