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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
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The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
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You MUST read this book
Amazon reader review of Nick Cohen’s You Can’t Read This Book.
You MUST read this book
by Rafiq Mahmood (Bogor, Indonesia)
To say that this is an important book is to vastly underestimate it. To say that it is a well-written book is to do it scant justice. It is a work that stands out as a masterpiece of literature, political discourse and enlightenment that should 
be required reading in every high school and in every home.
We have had a global counter-revolution in the past thirty years and no one seems to have noticed. The clock has been turned both forward and back at the same time. Despite all the technology bringing previously unimaginable access to resources and information, we have slipped into a new age of fear and tongue-biting. These are the best of times and the worst of times; the freest and the most restricted. Nick Cohen examines how the terrible mental slavery of religion, and especially Islam, has been coddled and protected and been not only allowed but encouraged to get away with murder; how money can buy anything and how censorship is alive and powerful in the shape of Britain’s libel laws, and how the supposed liberal democracies have had their liberalism and democracy subverted.
As I turned its pages I found myself constantly urged to email my friends or post a comment on one or more of my favourite blogs, quoting from the book. It was an impossible task because I didn’t know where to start or where to end. I would have to quote the whole thing, cover to cover.
I live in a country which is not free, where there are draconian anti-pornography, anti-blasphemy, anti-libel and anti-press laws which are enforced to protect the powerful and subjugate the weak. There is a charade of democracy, a charade of tolerance and a charade of freedom. It is badly needed here in the local language, not only in the language of the English speaking elite. This book must be translated into all the major languages of the world. It is a beacon of light in a world where we do not realise that we are in darkness.
Source: amazon.co.uk
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