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A long period of peace and stable relations between the world’s most powerful nations is coming to an end. Major wars have broken out in Europe and the Middle East, tensions are rising in East Asia, world leaders have spoken publicly about the possibility of a Third World War and intelligence agencies have never seen the world in a more dangerous and precarious state. Making use of Rachman’s unique, unparalleled access to leaders in political and intelligence spheres around the globe and full of extremely well-informed and insightful analysis, ‘War is Interested in You’ explores how we got to this point in global affairs and, crucially, what happens next – in this case, the increasing risk of global conflict.
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The cloud is an ethereal world of convenience and freedom. A place where memories and messages live nowhere and everywhere. But on the ground, sprawling server farms power our online world – while plundering our physical one. Delving into the labyrinthine industry of data centres that are now multiplying at an alarming rate, ‘Hyperscale’ is an urgent exposé of the ruinous physical infrastructure of the digital age. In the race to meet the AI revolution, tech overlords are waging a resource war as they trade our future for their profit. Marx unmasks a civilisational time bomb in the making with razor-sharp reporting and analysis to show that the greatest threat is not the spectre of AI, but a global disaster that has already begun.
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During the Cold War, the battle for ideological and economic supremacy was fought on every front. At the heart of the US’s campaign to inoculate the world against Communism and advance its own liberal democratic ideals was the CIA’s Congress of Cultural Freedom – an organisation that was as clandestine as it was powerful. Drawing on declassified documents and exclusive interviews, this book exposes the astonishing secret campaign to deploy some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West (including Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock) as instruments – whether they knew it or not, whether they liked it or not – of America’s secret service. One of the great stories of intellectual and artistic corruption by power, this work is a classic of investigative history and a landmark portrait of a period when politics and culture became dangerously intertwined.
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‘Propulsive … A rousing tribute to the beauty and importance of old-fashioned journalism, a taut thriller of high stakes ‘hostage diplomacy,’ and a poignant meditation on the human struggle between hope and apathy under authoritarian rule’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, bestselling author of London Falling
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For years now, people around the world have watched Donald Trump push the boundaries of presidential power and asked the same question: how has he been allowed to get away with it? In ‘Profiles in Cowardice’, Jacob Weisberg argues that the answer lies not only with Trump himself, but with the politicians, billionaires, executives and institutions that repeatedly chose accommodation over resistance. From Wall Street and Silicon Valley to the Senate and the legal establishment, Weisberg examines eight influential figures who privately understood the risks Trump posed yet publicly enabled his rise. Their stories reveal how authoritarianism takes hold not by tearing institutions down, but by gradually bullying them into submission.
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Since his re-election as US president, Donald Trump has made good on things he only dreamed of accomplishing in his first term. In six short months he had smashed constitutional constraints, trampled on free speech, suborned the judiciary, demonised the media and crushed protests on the streets. He secured the backing of America’s oligarchs and inflated his personal wealth. US foreign policy is no longer based on values but on greed, while at home his administration has intervened in the almost every area of people’s daily lives, bringing the National Guard into America’s cities. According to Martin Sixsmith, BBC’s Moscow Correspondent when Vladimir Putin came to power, it all looks eerily familiar to what Russia went through in the 1990s. ‘Despots’ is Sixsmith’s exploration of two aspiring dictators who came to power in nominally electoral democracies, then dismantled the pillars of democracy from within.
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From the 1950s to the 1980s, the many dramas of American political life had one common denominator: Roy Cohn. In his twenties, the infamous young prosecutor sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair and burned 30,000 books by ‘communist’ authors. Later in life, he was invited to Reagan’s Oval Office. Nancy Reagan called Cohn often for advice and gossip – indeed, much of his influence derived from his transactional relationship with gossip columnists. Perhaps most significantly, he mentored the young Donald Trump. The real estate developer, whom Cohn called his ‘best friend’, phoned him a dozen times a day. Indicted by the Feds on three occasions for bribery, perjury, extortion and other white-collar crimes, Cohn was acquitted every time. To achieve his ends, he did whatever it took. This biography sheds light on the life of the man who is arguably the mastermind behind the current arc of American political life.
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An urgent exposé of how Silicon Valley’s billionaire elite are waging a global campaign to dismantle democracy and replace it with corporate, tech-driven rule.
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In recent years, journalists have been dismissed by some or targeted for abuse, mainstream news has been consumed by ‘infotainment’ and clickbait, driven by profits, accused of being too cosy with political and economic elites. But at times of democratic decay all over the world, with relentless attempts to undermine truth and facts, and unprecedented technological tools to spread disinformation and incite violence – brave journalism is needed more than ever. ‘The New Censorship’ focuses on the unfortunate and unexpected mechanisms through which today’s media has inadvertently amplified the anti-democratic movement that looms over our societies.
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Britain is complacent about corruption. We are used to thinking of ourselves as firm defenders of fairness and the rule of law. But our institutions have never been more corrupt, from scandals in parliament and local government to crises in housing and the NHS. The evidence is impossible to ignore. Political leaders face a clear choice: tackle corruption or continue on the road to decline. Robert Barrington is one of the world’s leading researchers on corruption. ‘Corrupted Kingdom’ is his comprehensive examination of how corruption manifests in Britain, from politicians to prisons, the Monarchy and the Met. He assesses the origins of corruption, from Londongrad to the end of Empire, and shows how we can best reverse the decline and restore trust in politics and the democratic process. Vital and authoritative, this book provides an essential insight into why the abuse of power harms us all – and how we can banish corruption for good.
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From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. ‘Regime Change’ covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency – a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.
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A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace.
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A timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape – and sometimes warp – our social and political landscape.
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Once heralded as a modern-day Edison, Elon Musk has taken up a new role in public consciousness, with his growing desire to both transform global politics and engage in online arguments. What happened? In six short years, Musk turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker and cast himself as a saviour of humanity, an altruist whose fortune would stop climate change and colonize Mars. Now he is the most polarizing and perpetually distracted CEO on the planet. ‘Hubris Maximus’ provides a gripping, detailed portrait of the billionaire’s rapid ascent and his spectacular public implosion.
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‘A gripping take on how fraud and scamming have become part of our everyday lives’ Laura Whateley
