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Jimmy Reid
A Scottish Political Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Jimmy Reid’s funeral in 2010 was attended by Gordon Brown the former Prime Minister, Alex Salmond the First Minister and other leading politicians. Eulogies were given by his friends Sir Alex Ferguson and Billy Connolly. Crowds lined the streets for the funeral cortege. The Daily Telegraph described...
Summer Madness
How Brexit Split the Tories, Destroyed Labour and Divided the Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
In the three short weeks between the EU referendum on 23 June 2016 and Theresa May's ascent to Downing Street on 13 July, Brexit morphed into a mass murderer, destroying everything it touched. As the Bullingdon boys, David Cameron and George Osborne, were sensationally whacked, Mafia-style, the Cabinet...
by James Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
After spending ten years in the army, James Wharton enters civilian life and settles in the idyllic English countryside with his husband and two dogs, in what seems to be a perfect fairy-tale ending.
But only a year later, separated from his husband, James finds himself trying to carve out...
by Denis MacShane
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Two days before Christmas 2013, former MP Denis MacShane entered one of Europe's harshest prisons. Having pleaded guilty to false accounting at the Old Bailey, he had been sentenced to six months in jail. Upon arrival at Belmarsh Prison, his books and personal possessions were confiscated and he was...
Degrees of Separation
Ethnic Minority Voters and the Conservative Party
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
At the 2010 general election, only 16 per cent of ethnic minority voters supported the Conservatives. In Degrees of Separation Lord Ashcroft explores the gulf between ethnic and religious minorities and the Tories that is a well-known but little understood feature of British politics. Based on a unique...
Saving Gary McKinnon
A Mother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The ordinary lives of Gary McKinnon and his mother Janis changed dramatically one morning in 2002 when police interviewed Gary about hacking into US government computers. Three years later, on 7 June 2005, he was arrested. Extradition seemed certain and so, fearing that Gary would take his own life...
by Andrew Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
May 2045. England has become a minor region of the European superstate, politically correct but inert, weighed down by bureaucracy and unaware of past glories. With British culture diluted to near extinction by European influence, the nation having lost its Crown and its Parliament, nationalistic...
God and Mrs Thatcher
The Battle For Britain's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A woman demonised by the left and sanctified by the right, there has always been a religious undercurrent to discussions of Margaret Thatcher. However, while her Methodist roots are well known, the impact of her faith on her politics is often overlooked. In an attempt to source the origins of Margaret...
Not Guilty
Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 changed that in part, sparking a chain of social reforms that altered the face of British society for ever. But it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions...
The Unknown Courier
The True Story of Operation Mincemeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
On 30 April 1943, the drowned corpse of Major William Martin washed up on the coast of Spain. In what appeared to be a stroke of grave misfortune for the British, he was found to be carrying top-secret plans for the invasion of Italy. Truth, however, is often stranger than fiction: the plans, as well...
Equal Ever After
The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage - and How I Made It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
“My story starts at the very end of the journey to equal marriage rights. I stand on the shoulders of giants...” In the future, people will find it difficult to believe that until 2014, somewhere between 5 and 10 per cent of Britain’s population were excluded from marriage. As Equalities Minister...
by Nick Tyrone
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The 2017 general election was meant to result in a landslide victory for the Conservative Party. Instead, we saw a hung parliament in its wake. The election was also supposed to end in a loss of possible party-finishing proportions for Labour. As it happens, Labour gained around thirty seats nationwide,...
by Michael Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC
THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War.
Lord...
White Flag?
An Examination of the UK's Defence Capability
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
FOREWORD BY GENERAL SIR MIKE JACKSON
After the pain of Iraq and Afghanistan, it is hard to imagine the UK being drawn into another war. Defence chiefs warn that there is a real prospect of future conflict, but they have struggled to persuade most politicians to take them seriously. Our leaders...