April 2023 Issue
Sunder Katwala
Realignment Lost
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics
By Matthew Goodwin
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March 2023 Issue
David Laws
How to Spend It
Follow the Money: How Much Does Britain Cost?
By Paul Johnson
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March 2023 Issue
Michael White
Holy Man of Westminster
Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir
By Frank Field
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March 2023 Issue
Malachi O’Doherty
Up the (Peaceful) Rebels
Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle
By Shane Ross
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February 2023 Issue
Peter Riddell
Unwritten & Unfit for Purpose?
The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution
By Andrew Blick & Peter Hennessy
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December 2022 Issue
Joan Smith
London Burning
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
By Peter Apps
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December 2022 Issue
Andrew Small
Great Game, Reluctant Players
Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire
By Raffaello Pantucci & Alexandros Petersen
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December 2022 Issue
Howard Davies
Dr Doom Strikes Again
Megathreats: The Ten Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
By Nouriel Roubini
November 2022 Issue
Nora Duckett
Think of the Children
Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them
By Polly Curtis
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November 2022 Issue
Simon Briscoe
Damned Statistics
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
By Georgina Sturge
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November 2022 Issue
David Anderson
Was Lockdown Lawful?
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
By Adam Wagner
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October 2022 Issue
Jennifer Altehenger
The Ghost at the Party Congress
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By Frank Dikötter
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October 2022 Issue
Martin Pugh
Goodbye to Gladstone
The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War
By Vernon Bogdanor
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October 2022 Issue
Richard Vinen
Kim Kardashian of Westminster
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries, 1943–57
By Simon Heffer (ed)
LR
July 2022 Issue
Mark Galeotti
Vlad the Invader
Putin: His Life and Times
By Philip Short
LR
July 2022 Issue
Frances Cairncross
The Spy Who Came Out of the Sea
Agent Twister: The True Story Behind the Scandal That Gripped the Nation
By Philip Augar & Keely Winstone
LR
July 2022 Issue
Charles Clarke
Comrade versus Comrade
Labour’s Civil Wars: How Infighting Has Kept the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done About It)
By Patrick Diamond & Giles Radice
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right
By Oliver Eagleton
April 2022 Issue
John Vidal
To Hell in an Electric Handcart
Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster
By Eric Lonergan & Corinne Sawers
Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
By Eugene Linden
The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease
By Daniel R Brooks, Eric P Hoberg & Walter A Boeger
LR
April 2022 Issue
Owen Bennett-Jones
My Grievance is Bigger Than Yours
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
By Gideon Rachman
LR
April 2022 Issue
Richard Cockett
Anyone for Fraud?
Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals
By Oliver Bullough
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