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This is a total re-evaluation of New Labour and Blair’s years in power, with a focus on five areas: health, education, immigration, energy, and war. And then there’s the more personal angles too – Blair’s battle with Gordon Brown, his relations with the Palace, his private life and his controversial ventures since office.
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the ‘Churchill factor’, the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the 20th century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsised reality, he portrays a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategising, and deep humanity.
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world’s most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky’s brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin’s regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community. ‘Red Notice’ is a searing exposé of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky’s imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths.
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the ‘Churchill factor’, the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the 20th century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsised reality, he portrays a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategising, and deep humanity.
A moving account of a death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan in January 2002 from Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge and host of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.
A Downing Street diary with a difference; offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith.
England in the 1880s was a powerhouse of change, transformed not just by industrialisation but by new attitudes to learning, to politics and to society as a whole. This book explores this process of transformation.
From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, ‘Lunch with the FT’ is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have had lunch with the FT since 1994 read like an international who’s who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, brought to you by the Financial Times’ global network of columnists and correspondents.
This biography charts Nancy Astor’s incredible story, from relative penury in the American South to a lifestyle of the most immense riches through the ‘Jazz Age’ and beyond, a world of enormous countryside estates and townhouses, and the most lavish entertainments, peopled by the great figures of the day.
Based on personal experience but also drawing on new thinking from around the world in politics, psychology, neuroscience and even architecture, ‘Half a Wife’ is a must-read for guilt-torn parents of both sexes who are teetering on the edge, but also a wake-up call to opinion leaders.
The 70s are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political history. ‘When The Lights Went Out’ goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time, and where it was all leading.
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