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The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain's Public Services

In these pages, former coalition Cabinet minister David Laws explores periods in British history when one party needed the other to secure electoral support or the ability to govern.

In this meticulously researched biography, Michael Ashcroft charts Kemi Badenoch's fascinating course from relative obscurity to being hailed in some quarters as the saviour of conservatism in the UK.

"It's like the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century," said one former party whip. "You show them the Bible but also the instruments of torture."

Part memoir, part manifesto, part history, We Are What We Read is not just about how education can place you back on the right side of the tracks. It is also a rallying cry for the importance of literature in a world where the arts are being squeezed out at every level and where book bans in schools and libraries have surged to record highs.

Finding Margaret is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his birth mother.

This remarkable book, edited by one of the UK's leading political commentators, takes us on a deep dive through nearly 200 years of British political history in its most dramatic expression, the general election.

This important book looks at the immediate background to the 2023 war and asks whether the international system can contain two simultaneous wars in Europe and the Levant.

This remarkable new novel opens on the night of the Brexit referendum. Four people at the centre of that world are about to have their lives dramatically shaken.

With an eye for peculiar detail and meticulous research, John Lazenby takes us on an evocative visit to the Britain of the 1960s, when, aged nine, he saw the Beatles play live in London before he could even hope to read, or write down, the lyrics from their iconic songbook.

What really makes the British royal family tick? It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. And the answer? Well, surprisingly, it's not the royal family's devotion to duty, it's not their wealth or their status, it's not even their popularity (or notoriety!). No, what really makes the royal family tick is the huge body of servants and staff past and present who feed and clothe the royals, organise their days, polish their shoes, carry the deer and pheasants they shoot, and even put the toothpaste on their toothbrushes. If you want to find out who these servants are, what they do and why, in so many cases, they devote their whole lives to royal service, then this book is for you. Some servants became utterly indispensable to the royals for whom they worked - Elizabeth II's childhood nanny Bobo MacDonald, for example, was closer to the late Queen than anyone in her family, not excepting even her husband Prince Philip and her sister Princess Margaret. At the other end of the spectrum, some members of staff found their royal employers arrogant, overbearing, snobbish and even infantile. As one recent member of the Kensington Palace team put it: 'What you get with one or two members of the royal family is a public angel and a private devil! And only the staff see the private devil!'

In the Third Reich, the SS ran the Gestapo, the police and the concentration camps where millions of people were killed. However Nazi Germany still had laws and a legal system which outlawed murder and other criminal acts and SS Investigating Judge and Police Official SS, Major Konrad Morgen, used these laws to investigate and bring individual members of the SS to justice for their crimes against innocent victims. He was a fearless judge and investigator, and when he crossed swords with more powerful forces inside the SS he was demoted and sent by the Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler himself to the Eastern Front as an ordinary soldier in the Waffen SS. But his investigative skills were still needed and he returned to launch a series of criminal investigations in concentration camps. As a direct result of his investigations two concentration camp commandants were shot before the end of the War and he arrested three others. This book describes the cases he investigated and how he was able to pursue some of Nazi Germany's worst murderers from inside the SS.

Make it Human outlines a vision for a human-led future of work. It includes practical models, new insights and real-life stories, illustrating how we can nurture workplace cultures to invigorate human growth both for us and for generations to come.

An extremely timely reevaluation of the "lost" Labour Prime Minister. The man who set the course for the last Labour government, and in whom many see the future of the next.

Following Russia's aggressive war in Ukraine, the world is suddenly gripped by concerns over energy security. And yet, there is an even greater threat ahead - one that is even more likely to shape the events of the 21st century than the competition for oil or gas. The combination of an ever-increasing global population, climate change, industrialisation, urbanisation and limited natural resources, means that one challenge, above all, will shape the political, economic and security environment in the years ahead. That challenge is water. If people and nations will fight for fossil fuels, it is nothing to what they will do for most vital natural resource of all. As a doctor, a politician who has dealt with both security and economic issues and a concerned citizen who has worked with WaterAid, Liam Fox tells the story of water and the challenges it presents in a more complete way than ever before. The Coming Storm links together a range of issues which are often written about separately but seldom together and issues a comprehensible and compelling call for urgent action.

Anyone under 40 is caught in the Inheritance Economy; where opportunity is defined not by what you learn or earn, but by what you inherit. Family wealth is keeping families together but widening social equality in the process and this is only going to intensify. Today's millennials are at the epicentre of a great wealth transfer. Over the next three decades roughly GBP5.5 trillion of family money and assets will be passed down the generations, altering the financial and social dynamics of the country. Forget the generation gap; the real fault line within generations is now between those who can rely on family financial support, and those that can't. How is this extraordinary movement of familial wealth shaping the lives of those who give, and those who hope to receive? How will this slow-motion financial revolution shape the lives of those who won't benefit from it? The inheritance economy is a story of winners and losers, but it's also a story of huge social change, economic realignment and political controversy. Centred on families' stories that illustrate the economic dilemma in Britain, taking in interviews with leading historians, economists, sociologists and politicians along the way, Inheritance Trap is a fresh and compelling exploration of our recent past and a future that will be shaped - for better or worse - by the largest transference of wealth in human history. A timely and important survey of a burning issue of our time. Forget intergenerational unfairness, we're already living in something more pervasive; an inheritance economy which is restricting opportunity, forcing families together and pulling society apart.

In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.

This brilliant deep-dive into international law offers a unique perspective onto an unjust war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and threatens to overturn the accepted world order, through the lens of its key protagonist.

Michael AshcroftâEUR(TM)s new book follows the journey of a politician who has quickly become an outspoken and charismatic presence in British public life and who promises to be a lively addition to the government should Labour win the next general election.

A masterful survey of one of the most influential but under-examined roles in politics.

Why Vote is an expertly written, accessible guide to why you should exercise your democratic mandate, no matter how bored, frustrated or alienated you are, gives you the motivation to do so, and shows you the tools to make a positive change in your own society.

The larger-than-life story of Britain's foremost writer on intelligence and espionage.

A brilliant souvenir for all fans of West Ham of their momentous, trophy-winning season.

Full of passionate and personal argument, Veiled Threat is an indictment on a divided Britain that dominates and systematically others Muslim women at every level.

Commissioned by the UK's Prime Minister in September 2022, Mission Zero was the largest engagement exercise on net zero conducted to date. There were over 1,800 written evidence submissions to the review, which also held over fifty evidence roundtable sessions, visiting every devolved nation and region in the UK.

With the strong possibility of Labour forming our next government in 2024, it is fascinating to consider the last time the party stood on the verge of power, back in 1997. At that time, future Europe Minister Denis MacShane had a ringside seat that he would occupy for the next decade or so, living through the Cool Britannia years, the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Mandelson's two resignations, Princess Diana's death and Tony Blair's seeming invincibility. New Labour may be remembered as an unstoppable force, but what MacShane's diaries reveal is that whilst all seemed outwardly to be going well, the personal rivalries, slights and petty jealousies of the party's big beasts meant that it was never far from disaster. MacShane was a regular in Downing Street from the moment of Labour's election victory, and his indiscreet, gossipy diaries show figures such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Robin Cook, Peter Mandelson, Clare Short and Alastair Campbell in a light in which they've never before been seen, detailing the personalities as much as the politics of Labour's most successful stint in government.

The must-read political book of the year, Power Trip is the explosive new memoir from one of Westminsters most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10 as a pivotal member of Gordon Browns inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. Known by friend and foe as Mad Dog or McPoison, Browns right-hand man demonstrated a ruthless desire to protect and promote New Labours number two, whatever the cost. Laying bare his journey from naive civil servant to disgraced spin-doctor, McBride writes candidly about his experiences at the elbows of Brown, Balls and Miliband, detailing the internecine feuds, political plots and media manipulation that lay at New Labours core. The first genuine insider account of the Brownite camp, Power Trip is an eye-watering expos of British politics and a compelling story of the struggles and scandals that populate the political world.

The Best of Enemies is the political diaries of one of the most significant politicians of the late twentieth century. Covering the Thatcher/Major period - during which time Norman Fowler held prominent positions in the Cabinet and as party chairman - Fowler's diaries observe both Prime Ministers, and their Cabinet colleagues, at close quarters.

For many people, Gary Newbon is the face of British sports broadcasting. This is Newbon's incredible story of his time as one of the UK's most popular and versatile sports presenters, which included fifty years of TV sports presenting, first with ITV and then with Sky Sports.