WHEN I clocked this paperback in the remainders section of the Economists’ Bookshop, I did briefly consider nicking it. That, after all, is surely what the author would have done in my shoes.

But such is my deeply unanarchist internalisation of bourgeois property norms that I shelled out the £2.99 asking price anyway, and was rewarded with a read that brought me at least as much enjoyment as one of the numerous pints of beer that Ian Bone stresses his habit of consuming. Continue reading →