Politics/Current Affairs

The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law and spirituality, is antiblack

New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people

Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. The author, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this fraught relationship and confronts them head on.

David Runciman grapples with how character defines and limits the holders of the highest offices in the UK and America.

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler–it does.

Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, ...

A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.

The urgent story of this country's biggest crisis, told through the lives of those it most affects.

The heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us.

A testimony of how our government has undermined our democratic principles from a barrister who took the Prime Minister to court

A Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Book of the Year.

The unmissable inside story of the race against the virus.

Catapulted into an international crisis, Kate Bingham knew the odds were heavily stacked against a workable Covid-19 vaccine.

From a remote cottage, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, ...

Building upon his much-praised BBC Radio 4 series '21st Century Mythologies', Peter Conrad examines the enduring place of myth in contemporary culture and society.

Why free speech is the lifeblood of colleges and universitiesFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and off campus challenging the value of open inquiry and freewheeling intellectual debate. Too often speakers are shouted down, professors are threatened, and classes are disrupted. In Speak Freely, Keith

The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.

A moving and informative graphic guide to Holocaust.

In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed, the ensuing organization of local members of the community – and the 50 years since in which activists and ordinary people have dedicated their lives ...

'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge

The people, ideals and events that have shaped a nation - in comic book form

With twenty-six dazzling, interwoven pieces - one for each letter of the alphabet - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert creates an alternately hopeful and alarming manifesto on the climate crisis.

'Clever, mischievous and humane, this is literary journalism in the proud tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Joseph Roth'Amos Elon, author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide

If we care about inequality, we have to talk about private schools