Politics and Current Affairs
The Establishment
Owen Jones
In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea...
The Blunders of Our Governments
Anthony King
Sir Ivor Crewe
'An astonishing achievement' – Andrew Marr
Blunder, n. A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful...
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
Isabel Hardman
As one of the country's leading political journalists, Isabel Hardman has spent many years in that bizarre rabbit-warren we call...
The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership
Steve Richards
A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world – and...
Gimson’s Prime Ministers
Andrew Gimson
A concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain’s prime ministers from Walpole to Boris Johnson, illustrated by...
Go Big
Ed Miliband
Enthralling. I was left with such an unusual feeling that I didn't at first realise what it was, and then...
Unmasking Our Leaders
Michael Cockerell
Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life...
Britain is Better Than This
Gavin Esler
An urgent and timely exploration of a British political system in peril and what we must do to save it.
World-leading....
The Assault on Truth
Peter Oborne
When Peter Oborne wrote The Rise of Political Lying, looking at the growth of political falsehood during the governments of John...
The Death of Consensus
Phil Tinline
Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of broken consensus...
Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, technofeudalism, in which the owners...
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
Sara Ahmed
We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.
Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you...
