Tribes

Critics Review

• Lammy writes with nuance and sensitivity and accepts the lack of easy answers. But his core message is simple. We must cooperate more, compromise more, communicate more. Only connect, but offline

  Prospect

• A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author only from his Twitter persona

  Sunday Times

• Episodes of memoir, including DNA tests, a police frisking and a death threat, enliven the Labour MP’s first-rate study of social division

  Guardian

• It is rich, in thought, history, anecdote and experience

  The New European

• The best section of the book is a sympathetic account of why people voted Brexit from a zealous Remainer MP who insists Brexit is driven by xenophobia

  Evening Standard

• Tribes examines how to bring together a fractious country without smothering legitimate political grievances in the process

  Guardian

• Absorbing analysis . . . thoughtful, nuanced book . . . this book asks the right questions

  Observer

• Blends memoir with shrewd analysis of the current political landscape . . . He interrogates subjects such
  as polarisation, tribalism and identity politics with aplomb, bringing in voices from opposing backgrounds
  and views . . . The most powerful parts of the book, though, are the explorations of his own compulsion to belong

  The Independent

• A vital contribution to the political debate

  New Statesman

• Ambitious . . . [this book] helps us understand aspects of tribalism

  Financial Times

• Navigating diverse cultures taught him to appreciate different perspectives, and makes him an incisive diagnostician of our familiar ills – economic decline, political polarisation and terrible loneliness. But Lammy also has inspiring ideas for putting things right

  East Anglian Daily Times

• A fascinating and thought-provoking reflective journey across cultures, centuries and continents. This book
  will become a classic and an important tool for anyone studying social and political history and the rapidly changing dynamics of tribalism

  The House Magazine

• Compelling reading for understanding the rich lifeblood of our incredible shared city and the forces which shape us

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