Politics and Government

There will be a black Springbok over my dead body. Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969Just a year after the controver...

Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this because we no longer...

Now in paperback and with a new Afterword offering insights into the events of 2020 and early 2021, including the pandemic, global protests, racial...

From climate change to massive inequality to the decline of trust, the world is facing a number of interconnected crises. Above all else, however, ...

Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life...

Bringing much-needed humour to a chaotic year, this full-colour cartoon companion features the most hilarious and incisive cartoons by Steve Bell, ...

This first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operai...

Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and h...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America ha...

Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees and peop...

Jim Sillars, among the last of his generations working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decade...

Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 19...

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogans ambition to impose one-man ...

Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of C...

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-...

Sir Keir Starmer has played many parts during his life and career. He went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer before surprising many by joi...

Veering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales from the parliamentary jungle make for one of the most entertaining political mem...

A BLOOMBERG BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - A...

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenl...

'Carefully researched and excellently written . . . a wonderful account of the special relationship between Ireland and the USA.' BERTIE AHERN'Anyb...

Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today....

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...

According to many experts, China is already the largest economy on the planet yet its relations with the rest of the world have deteriorated i...

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon's political partnership changed the face of Scotland, bringing the country to within 200,000 votes of independence...

'It will terrify you but it's a story you must know.' - Mandy WienerIt was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its ...

'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News'ensures you'll never think about Southeast Asia i...

The three intervening decades between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolutions of 1848 are marked by enormous social, political, economic and cul...

What happens to people's sense of belonging when globalisation meets with proclaimed regional identities resting heavily on conceptions of religion...

Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Jules Scheele teams up with Dr Laura Locker in this comic...

Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant w...