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    The Searchers by Andy Beckett — the making of the Labour left

    A portrait of the figures from Benn to Corbyn who made waves in the party but often put protest before power

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    UK general election 2024: FT readers recommend five books to read

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    UK general election 2024: what books to read ahead of the July 4 ballot

    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street by FT experts

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    How to understand Modi’s India

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    Downward Spiral by John Bowers — can British politics be saved?

    A senior barrister makes the case for fixing the ‘sense of decay’ affecting Westminster and offers detailed and robust reforms

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    Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?

    As the alliance prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary, three books consider its relevance, and argue that its most difficult years may lie ahead

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  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
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    John Gray’s The New Leviathans — is the world doomed to get worse?

    From global crises to rising geopolitical tensions, the philosopher warns us against assuming that progress is inevitable

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  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
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    The Britannias — a nation seen through its islands

    Alice Albinia tours the British Isles in search of eccentrics, radicals and rebels

  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
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    The best books to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    FT specialists recommend the most insightful reads on an issue with roots deep in the early 20th century

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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
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    Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

    Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

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    The Abuse of Power — Theresa May points the finger of blame

    Unreflective of her own failings, the former PM is big on public duty but weak on solutions

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  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
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    Inside the corridors of power — the best new politics books

    Rory Stewart produces a genuine political classic, liberalism comes under attack — and a reminder of the values being fought over in Ukraine

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  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
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    Spies — Russia, China and the long intelligence war with the west

    Calder Walton’s engrossing history of a century of rival spookery offers lessons for the present

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  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
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    The Loom of Time — Robert D Kaplan on the reshaping of the Middle East

    A lively and provocative new study explores the powerful forces influencing the region in a disorderly, multipolar world

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  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
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    No Trade Is Free — Robert Lighthizer’s lessons from Trump’s tariff war with China

    The former US trade representative on how America must produce as well as consume — and win friends in the global economy

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  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
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    Regime Change — a conservative battle cry

    Patrick Deneen’s critique of liberalism raises serious issues — but at times veers close to advocating a US theocracy

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  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
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    Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump

    Matthew Dallek’s fine new history looks at the 1950s conspiracy movement that radicalised America’s Republican party

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    Politics round-up — strongmen and a delicate democracy

    Vivid and engaging accounts track Putin and Xi’s misjudgments and the growing pains of Spain

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  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
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    A Stranger in Your Own City — the post-invasion agony of the Iraqi people

    A haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003

  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
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    Masters of reinvention — where next for the Conservative party?

    Three new books assess the social, historical and ideological factors shaping Tory electoral strategy under Rishi Sunak

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  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
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    Inside the Deal — how Brexit got done

    Stefaan De Rynck argues that Brussels took control of the process from the start

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