Observer Column Thursday 11th April 2013

Since last month’s column, I haven’t had the chance to quite finish reading Bill Turner’s book on the East Lancashire Loom Riots of 1826. What I did manage to finish reading I would recommend, Jean Hatzfeld’s ‘A Time for Machetes - The Rwandan Genocide - The Killers Speak’ where 800,000 adults and children were hacked to death in just 12 weeks. Both books are a reminder of how lucky most of us