Tory nation
£10.99The story of the most successful political party in the world, and a nation made in its image.
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The wild men
£20.00In 1923, four short years since the end of the First World War, and after the passing of the Act which gave all men the vote, an inconclusive election result and the prospect of a constitutional crisis opened the door for a radically different sort of government: men from working-class backgrounds who had never before occupied the corridors of power at Westminster. ‘The Wild Men’ tells the story of that first Labour administration – its unexpected birth, fraught existence, and controversial downfall – through the eyes of those who found themselves in the House of Commons, running the country for the people. Blending biography and history into a compelling narrative, David Torrance reassesses the UK’s first Labour government a century after it shook up a British establishment still reeling from the War – and how the establishment eventually fought back.
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Labour’s civil wars
£12.99When a party is riven with division people do not know what it stands for. Though both major parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, it is the Labour Party which has been more given to damaging splits. The divide exposed by the Corbyn insurgency is only the most recent example in a century of destructive infighting. Indeed, it has often seemed as though Labour has been more adept at fighting itself than in defeating the Tory party. This book examines the history of Labour’s civil wars and the underlying causes of the party’s schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party’s course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.
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Planes, trains and toilet doors
£25.00‘‘F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously salty’ JOE LYCETT
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The men of 1924
£20.00The new Cabinet in January 1924 consisted, as governments had for generations, of 20 white, middle-aged men. But that is where the similarities with previous governments ended, for the election of Britain’s first Labour administration witnessed a radical departure from government by the ruling class. Replacing Stanley Baldwin’s Conservatives were Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour, the majority of whom had left school by the age of 15. Five of them had started work by the time they were 12 years old. Three were working down the mines before they entered their teens. Two were illegitimate, one was a foundling, three were of Irish immigrant descent. For the first time in Britain’s history the Cabinet could truly be said to represent all of Britain’s social classes. This unheralded revolution in representation is the subject of Peter Clark’s fascinating new book, ‘The Men of 1924’. Who were these men?
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The right to rule
£25.00‘The Right to Rule’ is the full story of what has just happened in British politics, and how it has shaped Westminster and, by extension, the nation.
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Politics on the edge
£22.00Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become. Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict. This book invites us into the mind of one of the most interesting actors on the British political stage.
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The fall of Boris Johnson
£10.99The Fall of Boris Johnson is the sensational inside story of Boris Johnson’s last days in power and his sudden, dramatic downfall, by acclaimed author, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times, Sebastian Payne.
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Politics
£20.00We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, energy shortages. Prime Ministers come and go but politics stays divided and toxic. It is tempting to switch off the news, tune out and hope things will get back to normal. Except, this is the new normal, and our democracy can only work if enough people stay engaged without getting enraged. But how? To answer that question, journalist Rafael Behr takes the reader on a personal journey from despair at the state of politics to hope that there is a better way of doing things, with insights drawn from three decades as a political commentator and foreign correspondent.
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Tory nation
£16.99The story of the most successful political party in the world, and a nation made in its image.
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Killing Thatcher
£25.00The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller
A New Statesman ‘Best Book of 2023 so far’
‘As taut as a fictional thriller’ Mail on Sunday
‘Gripping, detailed and richly layered’ GuardianThe gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher
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The Fall of Boris Johnson
£22.00The sensational inside story of Boris Johnson’s last days in power and his sudden, dramatic downfall.