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The MP's faked drowning in 1974, the ensuing scandal, trial, bankruptcy & jail. By his daughter.

John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP ...

Julia Stonehouse

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An instructive look at 12 statues: why they were put up, the stories they were supposed to tell, why those stories were challenged; and why the statues were pulled down.

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Alex von Tunzelmann

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A memoir of his time at Slough Comprehensive, aka Eton. Okwonga is a writer and journalist now based in Berlin, a city "that leaves you alone" and the location of his recent auto-fiction 'I... read more

One of Them: An Eton College Memoir

Musa Okwonga

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The cultural historian details 20 years of disillusionment in political institutions, banks, press, religion etc... and that's just England.

All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century ...

Alwyn Turner

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Asia, Africa and America as well as Australia: the role of forced labour in the establishment of the British Empire.

Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain&# ...

Graham Seal

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From being America's most significant ally in the region, Iran suddenly became its greatest adversary: this account, from 1941 onwards, explains how the Shah himself contrived to lose suppor... read more

The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty ...

Ray Takeyh

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On the dilemmas of a constitution-less nation; King Log comes to mind.

Law in a Time of Crisis

Jonathan Sumption

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Brief and embattled: a short, punchy polemic against the unscrupulousness of politicians.

The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of ...

Peter Oborne

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And he has 65 million chips...

Boris Johnson: The Gambler

Tom Bower

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Funny and scabrous essays by the political satirist and journalist.

A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land ...

P. J. O'Rourke

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Walsh is an international correspondent for the New York Times of long standing who was bureau chief in Pakistan for a decade, before his encounter with an intelligence agent and subsequent ... read more

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation ...

Declan Walsh

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IB is a judge, who fortunately argues that without law we have only power, and that power without law is tyranny.

Populism On Trial: What Happens When Trust in Law Breaks Down ...

Inigo Bing

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An essay by the novelist on how to be optimistic nowadays.

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division: From the Booker shortlisted au ...

Elif Shafak

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Suggests ways to combat the damage to liberal democracy, the media, the justice system, etc.

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

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The late CB specialized in identifying patterns (eg The Seven Basic Plots). Here he examines three sets of ‘in-group’ attitudes that he believed to be increasingly pervasive, and dangero... read more

Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion

Mr Christopher Booker

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PP has written numerous books on Fascist Spain. No one is better qualified to write this big history - why corruption has been so tenacious, and the continuing conflict between centrism and ... read more

A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and ...

Paul Preston

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The keenly awaited voice of order for a feverish decade of Parliament.

Unspeakable

John Bercow

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The Architectural, Landscape and Constitutional Plans of the Earl of M ...

Margaret Stewart

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