April 2024 Issue Sarah Dunant We Need to Talk About Democracy Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power By Erica Benner LR
March 2020 Issue Catherine Haddon Time for a Constitutional The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy By A C Grayling
June 2018 Issue Richard Cockett Votes of No Consequence How to Rig an Election By Nic Cheeseman & Brian Klaas LR
August 2017 Issue Richard Cockett Ditching Democracy Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia By Michael Vatikiotis LR
July 2017 Issue James Bloodworth Rebels with a Cause Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World By Jamie Bartlett LR
November 2008 Issue Michael Burleigh Shades of Grey The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism By Ron Suskind LR
October 2008 Issue Vernon Bogdanor The Long View Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy By David Marquand LR
October 2008 Issue Allister Heath No Free Lunch Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business By Robert Reich LR
June 2008 Issue Michael Burleigh Be Prepared Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century By Philip Bobbitt LR
November 2007 Issue David Butler At the Ballot Box Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy Since 1918 By Kevin Jefferys LR
September 2013 Issue Douglas Murray Votes of No Confidence The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy By Philip Coggan LR
October 2013 Issue Lawrence Rosen Power vs the People Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East By Elizabeth F Thompson LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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