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Politics books

July 2024

  • DO NOT USE BEFORE JULY 27TH 2024.  Jess Phillips shot in London, July 2024 for Saturday magazine.  Portraits: Sebastian Nevols
Set Stylist: Elena Horn
Fashion Stylist:  Melanie Wilkinson
Assisted by Roz Donoghue 
Cream cashmere top, Marks and Spencer
Necklace and earrings, Ottoman Hands 
Hair and Make-Up:  Samantha Cooper

    As an MP, I’ve intervened in environments that would make the toughest men cry. By most standards I am nails

  • A man with blood running down his fist gestures toward the air with a fist, while secret service agents huddle around him

    Trump monetizes assassination attempt by using photo as book cover

  • Paul Foot

    Book of the day
    Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn review – revolutionary intellect or posh trot?

  • Donald Trump at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 20 July.

    Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, then move to Florida, book says

  • The Only Way Is Up by Polly Toynbee and David Walker review – climb every mountain

  • The big idea
    The big idea: why we need to stop former prime ministers cashing in

  • Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum: ‘Often, for autocrats, the second time in power is worse’

  • Book of the day
    Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum review – the devil you know

  • The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around

  • Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

  • Great Britain? by Torsten Bell – why Labour must move fast and fix things

  • Football, faith and Fabianism: what books by the new frontbenchers tell us about the way Labour will govern

  • ‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

  • Sexed by Susanna Rustin review – the fraught battle for feminism

June 2024

  • Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘Every warm memory of home is destroyed’.

    The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed review – what role for the artist in times of catastrophe?

  • books

    ‘It was an awakening’: Diane Abbott, Nicola Sturgeon, Rory Stewart and more on the books that shaped their politics

  • A man walks by flags picturing the face of Atatürk during a protest.

    The Endless Country by Sami Kent review – After Atatürk

  • A Nazi parade in Vienna in about 1930, with marchers holding swastikas and giving Nazi salutes

    ‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’

  • William Keegan's in my view
    This timid ‘Ming vase’ strategy won’t turn Labour into a dynasty

    William Keegan
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