Search for empathy leads Bazalgette down a blind alley

NON-FICTION: The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society, By Peter Bazalgette, John Murray, €15

Can’t we all just get along? What’s so funny, as Nick Lowe once asked, about peace, love and understanding? Peter Bazalgette – perhaps most widely known as the TV producer who transplanted the Dutch original of Big Brother to Channel 4 in 2000 – has been wondering just this. He has written a book with a ...