Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s... The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice

John Pilger is the antidote to easy, comfortable thinking, to smugness, to ignorance

Pilger's gift is for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all - he is a photographer using words instead of a camera

John Pilger unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth and tells it as it is. I salute him

The array of interviews with the voiceless and abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of disinformation we are fed by the media, and for this achievement Pilger is surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today

An explosive read... powerful,compelling and questioning- a true reflection of the journalist himself

Compelling... provocative, argumentative and essential reading for those who wish to challenge their assumptions

World-class journalism

What makes John Pilger a truly great journalist is his conscience and bravery

Pilger's work has truly been a beacon of light in dark times

John Pilger's determination to swim against the tide of 'mainstream' media reportage prompts him to dig deep. Freedom Next Time is no exception

Impresses with its scholarship and literary craft

Truly, he has written London’s biography. I began rereading it as soon as I finished, and I urge you to read it as soon as possible, so that you can begin rereading it as well

A fat and filling feast: pretty much everything of interest about the capital is crammed into the eight-hundred pages. One cannot but marvel at Ackroyd’s erudition, his energy in marshalling minutiae, his ear for quotation, his flair for dazzling juxtapositions, his vibrant imagination and sheer exuberance

An erudite labour of love, a fan-letter to a fabulous city, and a book one suspects Ackroyd was destined to write. It illuminates the English character, and is darkly humorous in its detail, tumbling through centuries crowded with legendary events and eccentric observations, as exuberant, energetic and alarming as the city itself

A masterpiece

Spellbinding

A sharp, beautifully written but above all truthful account of London…This is the kind of writing that gives intellectuals a good name