"It thinks it’s an incisive political commentary. Actually, it’s a pantomime with purposefully disgusting humour and childishly sketched cartoon villains."
"As Joan Smith recently said, it’s a Mills and Boon story padded with poetry and given an academic setting to make it seem profound. Big, but not clever."
"Does philosophy a disservice by focusing on ‘the heavyweights’ (not very well) and misinterpreting/ blithely ignoring those it thinks less important. Patronising too."