Time period: 2007-

'This Time No Mistakes' is an urgent book about the state of Britain in the 2020s, from leading journalist and bestselling author Will Hutton. Rarely has a country seen as many interlinked crises as Britain is now enduring: a turbulent economy, rising living costs, an increasingly divided society...

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the space of just 49 days, Truss witnessed the death of the longest-reigning monarch, attempted to remould the economy, triggered a collapse in the value of Sterling and was forced on a series of embarrass...

Over the course of five years, Simon Hart had a front-row seat to the most turbulent times in recent British political history. From negotiations around Brexit to the impact of Liz Truss's extraordinary forty-nine-day premiership and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he's seen and heard it all. An...

The candid memoirs of former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, presenting the distinct periods shaped by Blair, Cameron and May from the unique vantage point of administering the fullest and fairest possible discussion. Unspeakable is John Bercow's characteristically forthright and inc...

'Unspeakable' is John Bercow's characteristically forthright and incisive account of his unique vantage point into British politics. Containing verdicts on many of the leading figures of this era, from Tony Blair to David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, Bercow explores and explains the w...

Drawing on his experience as an MP, Martin Bell explains how the expenses debacle arose and lays out his prescription for healing the deep wounds inflicted by the scandal. The revelations over MPs' expenses that began in May 2009 ranged from petty thieving to outright fraud and sparked a crisis i...

In this compelling book, Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New Statesman, examines contemporary England through a handful of the key news stories of recent times to reveal what they tell us about the state of the nation and to answer the question 'Who Are We Now?' Spanning the years since the ...

In the last decade we've had a referendum that led to Brexit, the Covid Pandemic, war in Ukraine, increasing fears over climate emergency, a new monarch and six Prime Ministers. An expertly written, accessible guide to why you should exercise your democratic mandate, no matter how bored, frustrat...