Political corruption
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Battle for the museum
£20.00Battle for the museum
Galleries around the world are at an ethical crossroads. Can they resist pernicious corporate and political influence?Â
SKU: 9781787387751 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Museology & heritage studies, Political corruption, Politics & government£20.00 -
Failed state
£20.00Failed state
One of Britain’s leading policy experts explores the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.
SKU: 9781035026593 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Autobiography: historical, political & military, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Elections & referenda, European history, Political corruption, Political parties, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Regional / local / state government, Social & cultural history£20.00 -
Four chancellors and a funeral
£25.00Four chancellors and a funeral
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, senior Tories were still acting as though the public purse was their personal feed-trough, and the air crackled with anger about PartyGate. ‘Four Chancellors and a Funeral’ delivers more of Russell Jones’s signature scathing wit, combining a detailed historical record of 2021 and 2022, with acerbic commentary, all of it leavened by jokes at the seemingly endless maelstrom of failures, nincompoops, and hypocrisies.
SKU: 9781800183087 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Comparative politics, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Political corruption, Political leaders & leadership, Political parties, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Social issues & processes£25.00 -
How to be a citizen
£20.00How to be a citizen
We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighbours to one another? C.L. Skach feels differently. She always believed in the strength of the law – she spent her career in some of the most fractured, war-torn corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions to help fix society. But as she sat alone in a sandbagged trailer in Baghdad after a rocket attack, she admitted what she’d been denying for years: a good society cannot be imposed from above. It comes from leaning less on formal rules, and more on each other. Skach lays out six ideas, informed by everything from civil wars to civil rights struggles, bystander responsibility to mutual aid in the pandemic, to help us build small societies of our own.
SKU: 9781526655202 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Civics & citizenship, Law, citizenship & rights for the lay person, Political corruption, Politics & government£20.00 -
How Westminster works…and why it doesn’t
£10.99How Westminster works…and why it doesn’t
British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get a firm sense that something has gone terribly wrong. Prime ministers are misleading and inadequate. Cabinet secretaries are uninformed and deluded. Many MPs are of the lowest imaginable quality. The legislation is sloppy, ineffective and broadly worded. Expertise is denigrated. Lies are rewarded. And deep-seated, long-lasting national problems go permanently unresolved. Most of us have a sense that the system doesn’t work – but do we know how to articulate exactly why? The reality is that despite all the coverage, hardly anyone understands how Westminster actually works. Our political and financial system is cloaked in secrecy, archaic terminology, ancient custom, impenetrable technical jargon and deliberate obfuscation.
SKU: 9781399602747 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Elections & referenda, Government powers, Political corruption, Political economy, Politics & government, Press & journalism, Social & political philosophy£10.99 -
Kingmaker
£25.00Kingmaker
Cameron. May. Johnson. Truss. Sunak. Five prime ministers, one explosive memoir from the heart of Westminster. Kingmaker lifts the lid on some of the leadership battles that have defined British politics for a decade and a half. The last fourteen years have seen turbulence at the centre of politics that is perhaps unique in British history. From coalition to Brexit, Covid to Partygate, Trussonomics to this year’s election, our government has never felt so fractured. And as Prime Ministers have come and gone, one man has been at the heart of every leadership challenge, seeing all, but saying nothing. Until now. Sir Graham Brady has been the Chairman of the 1922 Committee since 2010. As the leader of the group with the power to choose a new leader of the Conservative Party, it is his hand that held the executioner’s axe over five consecutive Conservative Prime Ministers’ heads. Elected to parliament in 1997 as the youngest Conservative
SKU: 9781804188262 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Biography: historical, political & military, Political corruption, Political ideologies£25.00 -
Night train to Odesa
£17.99Night train to Odesa
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Night Train to Odesa begins in Russia and continues to focus on people in Ukraine. It is the account of a young female reporter with no backup or security.
SKU: 9781846976476 Category: Biography Tags: Geopolitics, Political corruption, Politics & government, Press & journalism, Publishing industry & book trade, Travel writing, True war & combat stories£17.99 -
Out of order
£22.00Out of order
Amidst a landscape of economic turmoil, eroding freedoms and deepening societal fractures, one thing is clear: Britain is in a mess. Instead of serving the common good, our politicians seem fixated on personal gain, while certain segments of the media only seek to divide us further. But who is responsible for this descent into chaos? And how can we hold these people to account? With her characteristic outspokenness and irrepressible sense of humour, Carol Vorderman here reveals the intricate web of influence responsible for our nation’s unravelling. Part diary, part political manifesto, this is the story of how an old bird with an iPhone exposed the incompetence and lies of the Tory establishment, and inspired countless others to find their voice and stand up for what they believe in.
SKU: 9781035421244 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Biography & non-fiction prose, Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs, Political activism, Political corruption, Social & ethical issues£22.00 -
Patriot
£25.00Patriot
Alexei Navalny began writing ‘Patriot’ shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted – and will come. In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.
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Some people need killing
£20.00Some people need killing
‘My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don’t wait very long.’ Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new democracy for the Philippines. Three decades later, a nation that once taught the world the meaning of nonviolent resistance discovers the fragility of its democratic principles under the regime of populist autocrat Rodrigo Duterte. ‘Some People Need Killing’ is Evangelista’s meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines’ ongoing drug war and Duterte’s assault on the country’s fledgling democracy.
SKU: 9781804710067 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Political activism, Political corruption£20.00 -
Taxtopia
£10.99Taxtopia
In ‘Taxtopia’ a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant – and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear. In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world’s biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the Duke of Westminster often pay less tax than you do. Written with sharp wit and over-brimming with inside secrets, the anonymous author shows us that not only does the global tax system encourage dubious practice which favours the rich, but that it was specifically founded with that in mind.
SKU: 9781800960879 Category: Business And Economics Tags: Corporate tax, Finance, Personal tax, Political corruption£10.99 -
The abuse of power
£25.00The abuse of power
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case and parliamentary scandals, the powerful repeatedly chose to use their power not in the interests of the powerless but to serve themselves or to protect the organisation to which they belonged. This book presents a searing exposé of injustice and an impassioned call to exercise power for the greater good. Drawing on examples from domestic and international affairs she was personally involved in at the highest level, the former prime minister argues for a radical rethink in how we approach our politics and public life.
SKU: 9781035409884 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Autobiography: historical, political & military, International relations, Political corruption, Political leaders & leadership£25.00 -
The sister
£10.99The sister
This first book on Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister, tipped to be his successor, is a readable, jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and dangerous dynasty.
SKU: 9781529073577 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Biography: historical, political & military, Nuclear weapons, Political corruption, Political ideologies, Political oppression & persecution£10.99