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A review by teokajlibroj
All Out War by Tim Shipman
4.0
This is an interesting and very detailed description of the Brexit campaign and referendum. Overall, I enjoyed it, although there were a few flaws.
1) It's excessively detailed. There's way too much information and detail in the book which caused the book to drag. After every single minor event we are given the opinion and interpretation of half a dozen advisors.
2) It's set inside a bubble. If you weren't active in Westminster or the media campaign, you don't appear in this book. According to this book, the entire Brexit campaign was fought in the media by people in London.
3) The focus is incredibly narrow, the book mainly talks about Tories and the Leave campaign, Labour is an afterthought and no one else is mentioned. The author seemed to view Brexit mainly as an internal matter for the Conservative Party, rather than something that affected the whole country.
4) It suffers from hindsight bias. Every decision by the Leave campaign is treated as crucial to its success and every decision by the Remain side is treated as a mistake. Even things that were seen as successes are rewritten as mistakes. This gives an inaccurately one-sided view.
1) It's excessively detailed. There's way too much information and detail in the book which caused the book to drag. After every single minor event we are given the opinion and interpretation of half a dozen advisors.
2) It's set inside a bubble. If you weren't active in Westminster or the media campaign, you don't appear in this book. According to this book, the entire Brexit campaign was fought in the media by people in London.
3) The focus is incredibly narrow, the book mainly talks about Tories and the Leave campaign, Labour is an afterthought and no one else is mentioned. The author seemed to view Brexit mainly as an internal matter for the Conservative Party, rather than something that affected the whole country.
4) It suffers from hindsight bias. Every decision by the Leave campaign is treated as crucial to its success and every decision by the Remain side is treated as a mistake. Even things that were seen as successes are rewritten as mistakes. This gives an inaccurately one-sided view.