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Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right by Daniel Trilling
RRP: €28.55€28.32The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country's most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, "enforced multiculturalism"... -
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder
RRP: €20.22€16.78It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them 'getting under our feet'; one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their... -
The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class by Geoffrey Evans 9780198755753
€60.05This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This... -
A National Health Service?: The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979 by John Mohan
RRP: €59.49€59.32This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742539
RRP: €53.54€32.46The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged... -
Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak
RRP: €24.98€21.60In President Obama's effort to reshape America's image abroad, he made overtures to the Islamic world, pivoted towards China and vowed to "reset" relations with Russia. What he overlooked, argues William Drozdiak, was the imminent crisis in Europe. The... -
Bluffocracy by James Ball
RRP: €17.79€11.77Britain is run by people who are bluffing. At the top of our government, our media, the civil service and business sit men - it's usually men - whose core skill is talking fast, writing well, and endeavouring to imbue the purest wind with substance. They... -
Brexit For Dummies by Nicholas Wallwork
RRP: €21.41€19.44Your practical and fearless guide to surviving the world's biggest break-up Whether you're a staunch Remainer, a buccaneering Brexiteer, or are wavering between the two camps, you'll want to be fully au fait with all the issues surrounding Britain's... -
Politics: Why It Matters by Andrew Gamble 9781509527298
RRP: €15.41€13.45People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and positive change. Politics, Andrew Gamble reminds us,... -
In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government by Matthew d'Ancona 9780670919956 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€3.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit by Philip Cunliffe
RRP: €59.50€51.78Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the... -
The Eccentric Mr Churchill: Little-Known Facts About the Greatest Briton by Jacob F. Field
RRP: €20.17€14.17This fascinating and highly entertaining book contains little-known anecdotes, facts and details from the life of Winston Churchill, the 'man of the century' who, in 2002, was voted the Greatest Briton of all time. As well as providing a new insight into... -
The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It by John Seddon
RRP: €29.75€24.16In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his... -
Pandemonium: Europe's Covid Crisis by Luuk van Middelaar
RRP: €29.74€27.68Over the past decade the European Union has faced threats to its currency, borders and unity. Covid-19, which began its inexorable spread across Europe in February 2020, is the latest crisis to test the Union's resilience. Luuk van Middelaar's... -
The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It by John Seddon 9781909470477 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€14.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Anarchist Seeds Beneath The Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward by David Goodway
RRP: €27.36€18.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862218Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays by Stuart Hall
€26.76Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays... -
The Referendum that Changed a Nation: Scottish Voting Behaviour 2014-2019 by Ailsa Henderson
€41.90Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice,... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: €46.41€34.57A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole... -
The Political System of the European Union by Simon Hix
RRP: €39.26€35.03Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Hoyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political... -
The Dumbing Down of Britain by Duncan Barkes 9781783960941
€7.40If they could see us today, our forefathers would be spluttering into their pint glasses, wondering where it all went wrong. Happy to be spoon-fed on a diet of blandness, buzzwords and uniformity, in the last 20 years our society has become more insular,... -
The Foreign Policy of the European Union by Stephan Keukeleire
€36.35Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy, and that areas such as... -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy 9781908323774 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
€6.88Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of... -
The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T. J. Coles 9781905570812
RRP: €13.08€9.25'If you voted to Leave the European Union, the chances are you've been swindled...' In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the... -
The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T. J. Coles 9781905570812 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Strange Death of Labour Scotland by Gerry Hassan 9780748640027
€27.02The Scottish Labour Party is in an unprecedented position. Having been the leading party in Scotland for fifty years it lost an election and office to the SNP in 2007. This book addresses, examines and analyses the last thirty years of Scottish Labour,... -
The Hugo Young Papers: A Journalist's Notes from the Heart of Politics by Hugo Young 9780141033563 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€3.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris de Ploegg 9780997287080
RRP: €28.50€19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Brexit and the British: Who Do We Think We are? by Stephen Green
€7.35Whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about the sort of society we are? Why was the result a shock to so many? Did we not understand how divided we were? Old against... -
Class War: A Decade of Disorder by Ian Bone
RRP: €23.74€17.72For ten years, Tory Britain has burned. From Brixton '81 to Oxford, Cardiff, and Tyneside '91 the unforgivable have risen and seized back their streets. With a petrol bomb in one hand a biro in the other, Class War was there. And Class War is... -
The Spanish Anarchists by Murray Bookchin 9781873176047
RRP: €16.60€10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176047Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen by Michel Eltchaninoff
€17.22What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing audience for... -
Common Good Politics: British Idealism and Social Justice in the Contemporary World by Colin Tyler 9783319812762
RRP: €95.19€83.48This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisis and disorientation over political... -
Whatever it Takes by George Papaconstantinou
RRP: €23.79€13.89For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and... -
Scottish Independence: Yes or No by Alan Cochrane
€7.32In September 2014, a referendum will be held in Scotland to decide whether or not Scotland should become independent and cease to be part of the United Kingdom. In this book, two of the nation's leading political commentators will address both sides of... -
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett 9781250210869
RRP: €22.60€14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250210869Author Benjamin Carter HettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
The Failure of Remain: Anti-Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom by Adam Fagan
RRP: €41.64€36.82Studies of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union ("Brexit") have largely focused on the role of politicians and political parties, on the one hand, and the characteristics of Leave and Remain voters on the other. The Failure of Remain... -
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis
RRP: €15.46€10.50"Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb." - Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist What's happening in global politics, and is there a... -
Thatcher's Secret War: Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 by Clive Bloom 9780752499741 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.