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Ferdinand Mount's Books
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ABC Online, May 17, 2012
...today - is in the same basic state as the pre-Socratic Greeks. And he may well be right. Ferdinand Mount recently wrote an interesting book called Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us, in which he suggests that we are back in the...
Guardian.co.uk, May 11, 2012
...The New Few by Ferdinand Mount, What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel and Mark Haddon's The Red House Ferdinand Mount is a distant cousin of David Cameron, Nick Cohen noted in the...
Spectator, May 3, 2012
...Democracy has proved increasingly powerless to check the unaccountable runaway oligarchy that fails even to pay its taxes. Ferdinand Mount gives a lucid account of political decay alongside all this looting, a disengaged electorate and a cult of...
Poten & Partners, April 29, 2012
...stop irresponsible speculators in their tracks. The wretched Goodwin is among the cast of villains who appear in Ferdinand Mount's spirited new book The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy, which surveys the self-serving culture from which the banker...
Guardian.co.uk, April 28, 2012
...How Ferdinand Mount's mild views on banks and bonuses these days count as a radical position Do you remember the great economic crash of 2008? You know, the one that has...
The Independent, April 27, 2012
...Within the text we can identify the building-blocks for the "Red Tory" Phillip Blond, and the rise of the Cameroons. Mount argued we must "rebuild the little platoons". The faith communities would be critical in delivering welfare; we need to see greater...
London Evening Standard, April 26, 2012
...BUY NOW The cover of Ferdinand Mount’s new book — the subtitle about “British Oligarchy” in gold lettering disappearing between the menacing jaws of a shark — indicates that it might spill the beans on...
Spectator, March 1, 2012
...ambitions to lower himself. Among the people Melvyn interviewed was Lord Hennessy, like him a life peer, and Ferdinand Mount, who is upper class by anyone’s reckoning, but was the only interviewee not a member of the House of Lords, which of course is...
Telegraph, February 27, 2012
...could never afford its real-life equivalent. (Hogwarts is the modern version of this phenomenon.) Bragg gives space to Ferdinand Mount to make the sobering point that, precisely a century ago, all three classes had a remarkable degree of pride in their...
Observer, February 26, 2012
...mentioned that officers were on average five inches taller than the ranks in the first world war, while Ferdinand Mount noted that it was often intellectuals from the left who displayed the greatest revulsion towards the working class. Enjoyable stuff,...
Observer, February 25, 2012
...mentioned that officers were on average five inches taller than the ranks in the first world war, while Ferdinand Mount noted that it was often intellectuals from the left who displayed the greatest revulsion towards the working class. Enjoyable stuff,...
Guardian.co.uk, February 25, 2012
...mentioned that officers were on average five inches taller than the ranks in the first world war, while Ferdinand Mount noted that it was often intellectuals from the left who displayed the greatest revulsion towards the working class. Enjoyable stuff,...
The Arts Desk, February 25, 2012
...only one who was neither Lord, Lady or Dame (though she did have a CBE). That hereditary baron Ferdinand Mount was not only squeezed into the minority corner but never actually uses his title was, I suppose, a telling comment in itself about contemporary...
Unlimited Magazine, February 21, 2012
...EUROPE?S HEART Germania (Picador) The German Genius (Harper Perennial) If France provides the head and Italy the spirit, it is Germany that holds Europe together. Most of the focus these days is on the euro?s debt crisis and whether the Bundesbank can...
