The open-source investigative journalism and fact-checking network that works with an independent international collective of researchers, who recently reported on the Navalny poisoning, inc... read more
Published in February, we missed this from our last list. Jeremy Heywood served under four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the first and only Permanent Secretary of 10 Downing ... 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
Founded by mavericks in 1922, it evolved through the war, the invention of television and subsequent massive cultural changes. Whatever its problems, it is an extraordinary institution, and ... read more
How we might mitigate the effects of an unrestrained market with strong civil government to create inclusive economic growth. Henderson is a professor at Harvard and a member of both the Bri... read more
A slim volume on life and thought of one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. It ranges over her dramatic life, her love affair with Martin Heidegger, exile, Eich... read more
... and statistics - their use and misuse is legendary, and confusing: TH is a whizz at clearing the obfuscations and shows what brilliant tools numbers can be.
LH is an award-winning investigative journalist who spent several years in Moscow before being expelled in 2011. In his latest book he covers the work of Russian spies in recent years, inclu... 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
A keen look at contemporary history through the eyes of Hobbes. Gray suggests that the philosopher would not be at all confident that our cheerful liberalism will dissolve the horrors and ha... read more
The authors spend large parts of the year in Svalbard; their focus is the highly adapted wildlife of the Arctic and the effect of climate change on their environment. Fabulous photographs.
The moral philosopher on the self-perpetuating violence of Israel and Palestine and the psychology of conflict. This has been hailed by voices from every side.
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.
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?