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Whatever Next?
Reminiscences of a Journey Through Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
To say this is not a political autobiography would be an understatement. In fact, the author reckons it is not an autobiography at all. This book is more Downton Abbey than 10 Downing Street. It traces Earl Ferrers' aristocratic upbringing in the 1930s in the stately surroundings of Staunton Harold...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Margaret Thatcher enthrals whenever she speaks. Her political career has spanned five decades and her influence on world politics is undeniable. From followers she inspires devotion; from detractors she induces unprecedented venom - but they listen all the same. Margaret Thatcher is the most quoted...
by Michael Crick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
When it was originally published in 1984, Michael Crick’s treatise on the Militant tendency was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism, and although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn can be attributed more to the phenomenon of ‘Corbynmania’ than to hard-left entrism, to some...
Prime Minister Boris
And other things that never happened
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
History resting on a hair's breadth … a man dies rather than lives, an election is lost rather than won, one minister is appointed, another dismissed, a coalition is joined, or not. Enter a world of political counterfactuals, twenty-two examinations of things that never happened - but could have....
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The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
What makes a man put politics and ambition before family? Ed Miliband is perhaps the least understood political leader of modern times. Brought up against A backdrop of tragedy, with a prominent Marxist thinker for a father, Ed followed his brother to the same college at Oxford, into Parliament and...
by Peter Hain
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Peter Hain has always spoken his mind. So he does in this book. Here he tells his story as an outsider turned insider: anti-apartheid militant to Cabinet minister, serving twelve years in Labour's government between May 1997 and May 2010. Growing up as the son of courageous anti-apartheid South Africans,...
How To Lose A Referendum
The Definitive Story of Why The UK Voted for Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Did David Cameron have to call a referendum? Did history put a gun to his head? And was Britain's departure from the EU destined from the moment he called it? Was it a lost cause, or did the Prime Minister lose it?
Sky News senior political correspondent Jason Farrell teams up with political...
by Siobhan Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
In April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the bloodshed that had engulfed Northern Ireland for thirty years. It was lauded worldwide as an example of an iconic peace process to which other divided societies should aspire.
Today, the region has avoided returning to the bloodshed...
Hearts and Minds
The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
An important new book by one of Britain's great liberal thinkers, Hearts and Minds is part memoir, part political history and part history of ideas.
In it, former Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin explains how the central ideas and policies of the modern Conservative party came into being, how...
In the Corridors of Power
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
A political adviser to the formidably intellectual Foreign Secretary Tony Crosland and to Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, and a senior journalist at The Times and The Economist, David Lipsey has been close to the heart of government for more than four decades. Providing a unique perspective on a period...
We Ate All the Pies
How Football Swallowed Britain Whole
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In Who Ate All the Pies?, the gonzo sports journalist explores and celebrates the things we love about the whole culture of the game, tries to explain how we got to where we are now and speculates where we the game is headed. Amongst other things, he explores the history of the football shirt in style...
Mr Moon Has Left the Stadium
Confessions of a Matchday Announcer
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
JEREMY NICHOLAS is West Ham United's stadium announcer. A supporter since the age of six, Jeremy's blood runs claret and blue. In the summer of 1998, after decades in the stands, he became the voice of his club - announcing the players, the substitutions, the trials and tribulations, and best of all...
Edwina Currie
Diaries 1987-1992
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
After Margaret Thatcher, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics during the 1980s. Indeed, she was often spoken of as a potential Prime Minister. Her outspokenness and her lively, media-friendly personality won her a much higher profile than her status as a junior minister...
Hammer of the Left
The Battle For the Soul of the Labour Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“We went into the general election with an unelectable leader, in a state of chaos with a manifesto that might have swept us to victory in cloud cuckoo land, but which was held in contempt in the Britain of 1983.” It is said that those who do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them,...