Right-wing polemic packs a punch

Celsius 7/7, by Michael Gove, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, €14.70.

Michael Gove is fortunate in his timing. On September 10, 2001, he wrote an op-ed for The Times, arguing that an Islamist atrocity was imminent unless the West started fighting terrorism instead of appeasing it. Now he has written a book with much the same message, published just as the fundamentalist threat has lumbered into view again.

In the interim, Gove has become a ...