The New Statesman

I would recommend the Koran to anyone because there is so much prejudice and we all need to work to overcome it. William Keegan's The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown is a very intelligent account of what has been successful in new Labour's economic policy and what needs correcting in the third term (if there is one). John Kampfner's Blair's Wars tells the story of how hubris overtook the PM on foreign policy. Peter Stothard's 30 Days: a month at the heart of Blair's war (HarperCollins) is a good read; it also contains the six secret points that explain why Blair went to war. And Amy Chua's World on Fire (William Heinemann) warns that globalisation and unregulated free markets will lead to growing bitterness and ethnic division.