Politics books

Find the New Statesman’s latest politics book reviews and our curated lists featuring the best writing on politics.

Whips, a parliamentary romp by the former No 10 adviser Cleo Watson, is fact barely disguised as fiction.

By Sasha Swire

How universal basic income was adapted for the neoliberal era.

By Oliver Eagleton

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.

By Samuel Moyn

Ian Dunt’s new book reveals Britain as a country of inept civil servants, deluded ministers, blinkered journalists and unscrutinised power.

By Harry Lambert

The politician’s new work is a limited and soporific harangue. How did he twice get close to becoming leader of…

By Christopher Caldwell

Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again is a missed chance – a sustained swipe at a government long gone…

By Stuart Maconie

This list offers the most incisive books on the past and present of Russia and its president.

By New Statesman

Haunted by his misguided support for the Iraq War, the American writer turned to tragedy to understand the delusions of…

By John Gray