Stewart's decade in Westminster. This will undoubtedly be the political memoir of the year: rational, intelligent, candid, passionate, angry, open-eyed, honourable.
These ghastly-funny-surreal collages roast our politcians for their cynicism and incompetence. They are thoroughly modern yet travel a straight line to the satirical extremities of Hogarth, ... read more
To celebrate the 25th birthday of this eccentric institution: a second volume of interviews drawn from the FT's archives of the last five years. What's on the menu is always just as enthrall... read more
Non-human entities such as states and corporations have ruled our world for 300 years. Artificial agency has made us richer, safer and healthier - but what of AI?
Celebrates the art of just chillin' out, man... not from laziness but for the sake of slow, screen-free reflection. Odell reclaims our time and space from the encroaching technologies of dis... read more
Celebrates the art of just chillin' out, man... not from laziness but for the sake of slow, screen-free reflection. Odell reclaims our time and space from the encroaching technologies of dis... read more
The great novelist-in-exile examines the troubled relationship between the Russian state and its citizens, using the past to cast light on the present.
Two cheers because only Love deserves three... Forster - that great humanist and sublime prose stylist - advocated "curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race... read more
On his impoverished childhood and the Christian ethics that together informed his political career. He was MP for Birkenhead for forty years and now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lo... read more
As the ultra-conservative director of the FBI for nearly 50 years, Hoover is arguably more responsible for the emergence of the US far right than anyone else. Who was he? What happened?
The Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times argues that although the relationship between capitalism and democracy is now fraught with problems, separating them would be calamitou... read more
Cumbrian farms from the Lake District to the Solway Marches: magnificent photography and compelling conversations about contemporary agricultural issues.
Recently outed as 'Deep Miaow', we understand that Larry, the Downing Street cat, has been an important source helping Gimson with his researches. Clearly a descendant of Tobermory.
The Chagos Archipelago was appropriated from Mauritius by Britain in the 1960s and its inhabitants deported (with one suitcase each) to Mauritius and the UK in 1967-1973 to make way for the ... read more
Reportage by the courageous foreign correspondent, a former Moscow bureau chief for the Guardian before his expulsion from Russia in 2011, and author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russ... read more
This is very funny and very sharp - bold economic ideas dished up with anchovies on toast, etc. By the author of the best-selling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Distils the ideas of half a dozen C20th conservative (small 'c') intellectuals. The imperfection of the Westminster parliamentary model, and democratic systems at large, was one of the few t... read more
Trust in the elusive and mysterious beast that is the British constitution relies on the decency of our politicians. As a nation, we have perhaps been complacent about the erosion of our his... read more
Argues that today's Sino-American rivalry in micro-processing is as important in geopolitical terms as the economics of oil was at the time of the first Gulf War.
Ressa, CEO of the Phillipine's top digital news site, jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her efforts to "safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and... read more