50 Facts that Should Change the World

  Global warming already kills 150,000 people every year There are 44 million child labourers in India Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of its armed services In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms. Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s hunger, po…

50 Facts You Need to Know: Europe

  The sequel to the bestselling 50 Facts that Should Change the World  Santa Claus lives in Greenland and he is broke  David Hasselhoff had a role in ending the Cold War  Snails are a type of fish under EU law From the railway in Hungary run entirely by children to the British comedy sketch, unknown in the UK, but watched by millions across Europe every New Year?s Eve,…

50 Facts You Need to Know: USA

For 38 years San Francisco had a freeway that ended in mid air. Hot Rod Magazine, with over 7.5 million readers, is among the most popular of any car publication in the world.   More than 37 million Americans live below official poverty guidelines. The United States of America is a country with 50 capital cities, few of which anyone can name; a nation with 65 million gun-owner…

A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy

  The revelations over MPs expenses that began in May 2009 ranged from petty thieving to outright fraud and sparked a crisis in confidence unprecedented in modern times. This was a 21st-century Peasants Revolt  an uprising of the people against the political class. Ordinary men and women with political views across the spectrum were by turns amused, incredulous, shocked and then bitterly…

After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher (HARDBACK)

In 1995 Will Hutton's The State We're In was published to huge acclaim. Unofficially adopted as the New Labour manifesto before their landslide victory in 1997, it was distinguished as much by where the message came from as its content: Hutton was no Labour stalwart but a "natural" Conservative: a stockbroker and exactly the type of middle England swing voter Tony Blair had to win over to defeat t…

After Blair: David Cameron and the Conservative Tradition (PAPERBACK)

Is there life beyond Blarism? Kieron O'Hara examines David Cameron's ideological backbone and makes a compelling case that conservatism should be properly understood as the most meaningful set of political beliefs for our time. The first edition of After Blair, published in February 2005, was reviewed in the Guardian by Cameron himself. As well as describing the book as 'a compelling, and often p…

American Dream, Global Nightmare

There is something deeply wrong with America. The American dream has become a global nightmare from which we all need to awake as quickly as possible. The American Empire is now an unavoidable fact of life for the whole planet. In their previous book, Why Do People Hate America?, Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies looked at how the USA is seen around the world. In this, the hard-hitting sequel…

Can You Trust the Media?

The media dominates our lives. We give more time to viewing, surfing, listening and reading than we do to our families and friends. It's a relationship that's built on trust - and it's a relationship currently in crisis. TV's fake phone-ins, phoney footage from royal reality shows, reporters resorting to phone-bugging to get stories - is there anything left in the media we can believe? As audien…

China: Friend or Foe?

  China's economy is growing phenomenally, with half the world's cranes currently on its soil. Its 1.3 billion people have around 300 million mobile phones, and a purchasing power second only to the US. Yet, especially in rural areas, there is widespread poverty. Government censorship is a fact of life, with 50,000 workers manning a firewall restricting citizens' access to the internet. Hug…