After Nations
£30.00What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.
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Abundance
£11.99In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. Progress requires the ability to see promise rather than just peril in the creation of new ideas and projects, and an instinct to design systems and institutions that make building possible. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them.
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The Doom Loop
£22.00Global institutions have failed to adapt to today’s political-economic realities. What went wrong, and how can we reverse our descent into chaos?
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Vertigo
£10.99Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the ‘new woman’, the ‘new man’, ‘new living’ and ‘new thinking’. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges. Women conquer the racetracks and tennis courts, go out alone in the evenings, cut their hair short and cast the idea of marriage aside. Unisex style comes into fashion, androgynous and experimental. People revel in the discovery of leisure, filling up boxing halls, dance palaces and the hotspots of the New Age, embracing the department stores’ promise of happiness and accepting the streets as a place of fierce battles.
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Autocracy, Inc
£10.99Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources – the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another – and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America. Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, this group doesn’t operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies: Autocracy, Inc.
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The language of evil
£20.00In this entertaining and revealing history, professional speechwriter Guy Doza charts how some of the most bloodthirsty and energetic dictators grabbed and maintained power through their skilled use of words.
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Failed state
£10.99In Failed State, one of Britain’s leading policy experts, Sam Freedman, explores the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.
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The incarcerations
£12.99A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE
A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press’ NAOMI KLEIN
‘Essential reading’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS
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The challenges of democracy
£18.99Across the globe, democracy is in crisis – in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen, and where might we go from here? Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today – from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. Timely, incisive and wholly original, ‘The Challenges of Democracy’ applies the brilliance of ‘the cleverest man in Britain’ to the most urgent and far-reaching political issue of our day.
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Get in
£25.00Drawing on their unrivalled access throughout the Labour party, the Times and Sunday Times investigative duo behind ‘Left Out’ now present the inside story of Labour’s transformation and general election under Starmer. This is the definitive telling of a momentous time for the party, focusing on Starmer’s relentless and single-minded pursuit of power and on the hidden turmoil as he expunged opponents and attempted to unite his party in the face of searingly divisive events. Richly peopled with all of the major figures of Labour present and past, and revealing who actually wields power in the party today, this is a must-read, warts-and-all picture of how Labour was ruthlessly transformed, how Starmer won Number 10 and who Britain’s government really is.
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The wild men
£10.99The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the ‘wild men’ who shook up the British establishment, with a fully updated new Preface.