Politics books
Michael Lewis: ‘We were incentivised to have a bad pandemic response’
In his new book, the author of The Big Short has turned his attention to Covid and the people who could have prevented it sweeping the US – had they been allowed to
Andrew Anthony
09, May, 2021 @10:30 AM
Is nowhere safe from the Tories’ culture wreckers? | Stewart Lee
Oliver Dowden and his cronies are placing pliant ghouls in every position of influence
Stewart Lee
09, May, 2021 @9:00 AM
Doom by Niall Ferguson review – how to make sense of catastrophe
A study of horrible afflictions, from famines to pandemics, and our failure to learn from past mistakes
Rafael Behr
07, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen by Linda Colley review – how the modern world was made
The vital role of war ... a virtuoso global study of how nations were formed and constitutions written upends the familiar narrative at every turn
Miles Taylor
24, Apr, 2021 @6:30 AM
Madam Speaker review: how Nancy Pelosi outwitted Bush and Trump
John Boehner calls the Democrat the most powerful House speaker ever. Susan Page’s authoritative biography shows why
Lloyd Green
24, Apr, 2021 @6:00 AM
In the Thick of It by Alan Duncan review – too much bile, not enough style
The former Conservative minister spews out the vitriol in his diaries, but lacks the self-awareness and wit to write a great political memoir
Andrew Rawnsley
18, Apr, 2021 @8:00 AM
Ted Cruz threatens to burn John Boehner’s book over criticisms
Former Republican House speaker called the Texas senator ‘Lucifer in the flesh’
Martin Pengelly in New York
15, Apr, 2021 @4:23 PM
In the Thick of It by Alan Duncan review – Johnson is a ‘buffoon’, Gove a ‘freak’
The diaries of the former Tory minister dismiss the PM’s Brexit arguments as ‘puerile junk’, but Britain’s stagnant politics is the real target
Gaby Hinsliff
15, Apr, 2021 @11:00 AM
Do Not Disturb review – the disturbing death of a Rwandan dissident
Michela Wrong uses the murder of Patrick Karegeya to focus her case against Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame in this fascinating investigation
Chris McGreal
13, Apr, 2021 @6:00 AM
The Guardian of view of Boris Johnson’s folly: a plan to divide and misrule | Editorial
Editorial: History is littered with past mistakes of splitting peoples into nationalists and unionists. The prime minister seems wont to repeat them
Editorial
11, Apr, 2021 @4:31 PM
On the House review: John Boehner’s lament for pre-Trump Republicans
The former speaker’s memoir will not make him any new friends in a party under the far-right’s sway
Lloyd Green
10, Apr, 2021 @5:00 AM
Lewis Minkin obituary
Scholar of the Labour party, its constituent trade unions and how they voted at the annual conference
David Howell
05, Apr, 2021 @5:19 PM
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