Politics & Theories

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210. Twenty two days later, he was dead. This title documents Litvinenko's life and death.

Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013 - or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008 - just as the world's financial system went into meltdown? This title deals with these questions.

A fun, tongue-in-cheek book of over 100 puzzles and games centred around the Tories' terrible record. It's also an outlet for rage.

'DIFP IX' brings together the entire spectrum of Ireland's foreign relations between 1948 and 1951. It includes Ireland's role as a founder member of the Council of Europe in 1949 and the state's response to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950 - the origins of today's EU.

Master manipulator or gangster? The malign thrust of Putin's domestic and foreign policy is exposed in Cunningham's latest page-turning biography including his early life, political career, the wars in Chechnya, Crimea and the Ukraine, the crackdown on human rights, Brexit, Trump - and the poisonings.

The Irish parliament has become radical, raucous and rancorous, trawling, brawling and bawling to hide its failure to represent the people equally and fairly. It directs its energy toward character assassination and denigration of its predecessors in opposition, to the detriment of respect and toleration for the Irish people and the institutions of government.

Why the old politics is useless and what to do about it. This is political journalist Matthew DAnconas call to arms to challenge this age of political extremism, lazy populism and democratic torpor. In it Matthew DAnconas will propose a new way of understanding the crises of developed societies in the early 21st Century and plot a way forward.

The Brexit vote; Donald Trump's victory; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke feelings and not facts. So what does it all mean and how can we champion truth in in a time of lies and 'alternative facts'? The author investigates how we got here, why quiet resignation is not an option and how we must fight back.

A riveting account from the best-informed insider, Collateral Damage charts the strangest and most convulsive period in the recent history of Britain and the US - and the state of the 'special relationship' today.

An incisive new take on popular economics: follow a dollar on its journey around the world

What just happened and how did we get into this mess?