Founded by mavericks in 1922, it evolved through the war, the invention of television and subsequent massive cultural changes. Whatever its problems, it is an extraordinary institution, and ... read more
After looking at the bleak trajectory of Erdogan's regime, DB argues that Turkey's democratic instincts and economic ties to Europe will win in the end.
The editor of the New Statesman takes a handful of news stories from the last two decades, and reflects on what they mean for England as a nation. A compassionate and readable analysis of h... read more
The cult which believed a band of politicians and celebrities were in fact cannibalistic paedophiles conspiring against Trump... Sommer investigates how such a farcical theory managed to gen... read more
An emergency to rival climate change: all of life on earth as we know it relies on insects, and their numbers are in free-fall. Unnerving and important reminder that global pollution and agr... read more
Wry and robust memoir from the Conservative MP of - amongst other things - 'Plebgate' notoriety. Praised by voices on both sides of the political divide.
He has been making documentaries in Westminster for fifty years, and filmed the last ten Prime Ministers. Here he shares insights and some of the confidences given to him by his subjects whe... read more
Hair-raising tour of the corridors and back doors of the globalised digital world that looks at espionage and crime, and exposes our startling vulnerabilities.
A detailed, careful attempt to understand the changes in the United States over the last decade that sees Trump's election not so much as the cause of fracture but rather as the bitter fruit... read more
A travelogue through the so-called 'red wall' seats of Northern England. Brexit and Corbyn are here of course, but Payne's dogged reportage reveals a sense that something more fundamental ha... read more
The author of Capital In The Twenty First Century brings together his articles from Le Monde, covering the rise and fall of Trump, Brexit, Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the u... read more
A passionate, erudite defence of the pluralism and secularism that have been India's socio-political treasure since Independence, now besieged by ethno-religious ideologies and politics. Imm... read more
The Dutch historian and journalist on the first two decades of the C21st and the forces that have rocked the European project. How could the dream of unity, peace, prosperity and co-operatio... read more