"Sidelights"

British journalist and professor of journalism Hugh Stephenson wrote his first book, a critique of globalism titled The Coming Clash: The Impact of Multinational Corporations on the Nation State, in the early 1970s, when he was a reporter for the London Times. A Saturday Review contributor, who called this a "carefully researched, objective book," noted Stephenson's prediction that unless international regulations are put in place to regulate banking, taxation, and antitrust matters, "individual nations may well lose their economic sovereignty, as well as control of other political and social changes that are bound to follow."

Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP is a study of the founding of the Social Democratic Party in 1981. Bernard Crick, who reviewed the book in the Times Educational Supplement, wrote that "the judgements of this book are balanced and shrewd, and it will be of use to future historians (limited only by its inability to disclose its sources)." Crick called...