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Half-Time!
American public opinion midway through Trump’s (first?) term – and the race to 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The start of 2019 is midway between the last presidential inauguration and the next – but will it also prove the halfway point in Donald Trump’s presidency?
Following up Hopes and Fears, which set out in compelling detail why America sent Trump to the White House, Half-Time! brings together...
Klop
Britain's Most Ingenious Secret Agent
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious secret agent, but he wasn't authorised to kill. Instead, he was authorised to tell tall tales, bemusing and beguiling his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and tricked his way into...
Why I'm Right. . .
And Everyone Else is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
For a real insight into the bizarre circus that is the Westminster village, look no further... For two and a half years, Tom Harris used his And Another Thing... blog to dish the dirt on the reality of life as an MP. From defending politicians to dissecting Doctor Who, from how to survive a zombie...
Strange Intelligence
Memoirs of Naval Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting intelligence on naval installations. Recruited by Mansfield Cumming, the first 'C' (or head of what would become MI6), Bywater was given the designation 'H2O'...
The Mighty And The Almighty
How Political Leaders Do God
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
For a secular age, we have a lot of religious politicians.
Theresa May, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, even Donald Trump all profess Christianity, as did Obama, Brown, Sarkozy, Bush and Blair before them. Indeed, it is striking how many Christian Presidents and Prime Ministers have assumed...
Eminent Parliamentarians
The Speaker's Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
To celebrate the centenary of the 1911 Parliament Act, John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, instigated a series of public lectures in which current parliamentarians assessed the careers and characters of parliamentary giants. The result was a sequence of fascinating appraisals covering a...
Dilly
The Man Who Broke Enigmas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two world wars. During the first, he was the chief codebreaker in the Admiralty, breaking the German Navy's main flag code, before going on to crack the German...
What Have the Immigrants Ever Done For Us?
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Right now, immigration is a central point of discussion in both political debate and cultural discourse. With the growth of right-wing parties in Britain, it seems that animosity towards outsiders is increasing every day - after all, immigrants come to our country, steal our jobs and exploit our public...
by Kurt Barling
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society is upon us and racism is no longer a block on...
by Chapman Pincher
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Harry Chapman Pincher is a legend among journalists. As an investigative reporter, he struck terror into those trying to hide the murky secrets of state.
After early careers as a teacher, a scientist and a soldier, Chapman Pincher joined Lord Beaverbrook’s then all-powerfulDaily Expressin...
The Left's Jewish Problem
Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
New, updated edition of an important and timely critique of Anti-Jewish sentiment on the left.
There is a sickness at the heart of left-wing British politics, and in recent years it has silently spread, becoming ever more malignant.
Today, it seems hard to believe that until the 1980s,...
Is Anything Happening?
My Life as a Newsman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In the days before mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour news channels, the easiest way for a British foreign correspondent to find out what was going on in the world was to phone the local office of Reuters news agency and ask: 'Is anything happening?'
That's how the award-winning BBC reporter...
The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015
Profiles of the New MPs and Analysis of the 2015 General Election Results
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
In the wake of the most unprecedented election result in recent memory, the question on everyone's lips is: what just happened to the UK's political landscape - and why? And who are the 182 new faces on the House of Commons benches? In The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015, public affairs...
War Games
The Psychology of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The human brain is hard-wired with a primal aversion to killing. Amid the horror of war even the best-trained soldiers can forget their training. Vast effort and countless sums have been spent in the attempt to keep our men fighting. Military psychologist Leo Murray argues that the real question is:...