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The history of the Baltic states, how they differ from one another, and their individual and collective significance to the West.

Baltic: The Future of Europe

Oliver Moody

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By the American professor of journalism and political science.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart

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No doubt there will be humour at the expense of the Tory MPs who fell by the wayside for several mortal sins (mostly greed but also the ill-advised coveting of thy neighbour's tractor in the... read more

Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip ...

Simon Hart

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The author is a veteran oak himself.

From Acorns to Oaks: An Urgent Agenda to Rebuild Britain ...

Michael Heseltine

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Historically informed, socially and environmentally alert, Kaplan is a great contemporary commentator on geopolitics.

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

Robert D Kaplan

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Already attracting immense praise, this remarkable book poses many uncomfortable questions.

The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra

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Few people have better earned the right to be listened to than Roth, having witnessed the fallout of practically every horror of the last thirty years: Rwanda, Myanmar, Kuwait, Ukraine... As... read more

Righting Wrongs: Three Decades Leading Human Rights Watch ...

Kenneth Roth

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Famously the cleverest man in Britain, Sumption has trenchant views about these matters.

The Challenges of Democracy: And The Rule of Law

Jonathan Sumption

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The Swedish ecologist, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, proves how Israel's attack on Gaza is not just a humanitarian but an environmental crisis. H... read more

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth ...

Andreas Malm

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Stevenson was once the youngest trader in the city and Citibank's most profitable, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars a day. Then he gave it up. A remarkable memoir - funny, excoriating an... read more

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

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The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

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An essay on the Palestinian struggle for freedom born out of her Edward W. Said lecture, delivered at Columbia University nine days before October 7 2023.

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative ...

Isabella Hammad

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Sullivan was US ambassador in Moscow for most of the period 2019-2022; he retired from his post six months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s Wa ...

John J. Sullivan

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'Nye' Bevan, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Enoch Powell, Keith Joseph and ... the new member of Parliament for Clacton.

Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain ...

Vernon Bogdanor

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A much anticipated memoir on the flaws of the recent Tory hand of PMs - by the former chair of the 1922 Committee, who has hitherto kept mum.

Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers ...

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A careful, detailed account of the trial of the surviving perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks, which left 130 dead and hundreds wounded.

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

Emmanuel Carrère

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Argues that the wood-coal-oil-green energy transition is illusory: we use more wood and coal than ever, and remain dependent on oil. The idea of 'transition' has been deployed by energy comp... read more

More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy ...

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

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25 years after its first publication, Gladwell revisits The Tipping Point, looking particularly at how the idea applies to epidemics.

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise ...

Malcolm Gladwell

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While acknowledging the benefits of many transformations to social life in the last 60 years (e.g. gender equality), DG argues that there are costs - which fall disproportionately on the poo... read more

The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality ...

David Goodhart

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Eleven essays from perhaps the greatest Israeli writer; one of the most brilliant, attentive and humane commentators on this appalling conundrum.

The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine

David Grossman

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Or should that be 'untucked'?

Unleashed

Boris Johnson

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A memoir that the late opposition leader and dissident began after his poisoning in 2020.

Patriot

Alexei Navalny

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Following a sharp analysis of the cultural history of inequality, TP considers how we might alleviate it in our own society.

Nature, Culture, and Inequality

Thomas Piketty

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Argues that global digital currencies undermine the dominating value of the US dollar and therefore the stability of liberal democracies.

Smart Money: How digital currencies will win the new Cold War – ...

Brunello Rosa

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What is freedom and how do we achieve it? The acclaimed historian of the C20th travels The Road to Unfreedom in reverse: freedom understood as the freedom to do and to be, rather than freedo... read more

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

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The author - botanist, ecologist and professor of environmental biology - discusses her ideas of reciprocity and mutual benefit.

The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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The veteran journalist lifts the curtain on Biden's behind-the-scenes diplomacy with Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East amidst the fevered politics of the approaching presidential election.

War

Bob Woodward

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Human folly and the aspiration to conquer nature and one another: the author - a Yale professor - makes a compelling exposition of the relationship between empire and environmental destructi... read more

The Burning Earth: A Material History of the Last 500 Years ...

Sunil Amrith

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The orthodox view - that the best custodian of land is its owner - faces vigorous challenge from the the author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain.

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? ...

Guy Shrubsole

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Crazy times, crazy people...

Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2024

Tim Benson

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Argues that the greatest threat to democracy is interlinked networks - primarily, state-controlled companies - rather than individuals.

Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World ...

Anne Applebaum

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The expanding geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean.

The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order ...

Darshana M Baruah

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By tracking the behaviour of a typical day, DD evaluates how the smallest actions affect the broader environment and economy.

Environomics: How the Green Economy is Transforming Your World ...

Dharshini David

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Eschews tribalism for a witty, perceptive look at our core political institutions.

Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

Sam Freedman

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A valuable study of the nature of modern corporations and the prevailing ideas about commercial success.

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) Everything w ...

John Kay

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A close examination of 125 years of data, from the late 1890s to the present: this is a remarkable and comprehensive piece of research.

Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite ...

Aaron Reeves

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