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1.0 out of 5 stars Suicide of a Nation: A Complete Waste of Paper Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2026 Format: Kindle Edition Let’s be clear about what this book is. It is not analysis. It is not scholarship. It is not even a coherent argument. It is anxiety dressed up in a suit and pretending to be serious. The logic collapses on page one and never recovers. Goodwin builds his entire case on the oldest and laziest trick in bad writing. Take a complicated thing, strip out everything that makes it complicated, and then act shocked at how simple it turns out to be. A first year student would get this handed back with red pen all over it. The evidence is a joke. Sources are cherry picked with surgical precision to exclude anything that disagrees. Entire fields of research including sociology, economics, history are casually ignored because they had the nerve to reach different conclusions. This is not how thinking works. This is how a man who has already made up his mind pretends he hasn’t. The writing is aggressively mediocre. There is not a single sentence in this book that will stay with you. Not one image, not one idea, not one moment of genuine insight. Goodwin writes like a man terrified that clarity might expose him. The prose is bloated, the chapters are repetitive, and the conclusion says nothing that the introduction didn’t already say badly. But the greatest failure of this book is its profound lack of curiosity. It looks at a complex, messy, beautiful world full of difficult questions and sees only something to fear. That is not the mark of a thinker. That is the mark of someone who stopped thinking and decided to start selling instead. Suicide of a Nation is not dangerous because it is radical. It is dangerous because it is lazy. And laziness, dressed up as common sense, is how bad ideas spread. A embarrassment from start to finish.

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