• March 31 2025
  Review

  Loose cannons and quiet heroes — the pick of new political books

  A prime minister who won’t stand down, inside the Johnson and Truss chaos, a leftwing rallying cry and a paean to civil servants

  
• February 7 2025
  Review

  Get In — Starmer takes a supporting role in the Morgan McSweeney story

  The prime minister’s chief of staff is the star of Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund’s revealing account of Labour’s return to power

  
• January 15 2025
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  The Taiwan Story by Kerry Brown — the case for stalemate

  A compelling look at the small island caught between Chinese power and the vagaries of US politics

  
• December 29 2024
  Gideon Rachman

  Year in a word: Fascism

  The right-wing ideology is no longer confined to the dark underbelly of history

  
• December 10 2024
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  Twelve books that help explain what is happening in Syria

  A selection of some of the best titles shedding light on the conflict and its place in the wider power struggles across the Middle East

  
• December 7 2024
  Alex von Tunzelmann

  Why are political memoirs so mediocre?

  Most politicians are fundamentally unsuited to the painful and exposing reckoning that is required

  
• November 22 2024
  FT SeriesThe best books of the year 2024

  Best books of 2024: Politics

  Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

  
• November 6 2024
  ReviewUS presidential election 2024

  The books to read now Trump has won

  A selection of the best titles to shed light on America’s decision to return the former president to power

  
• October 25 2024
  ReviewFT Wealth

  The modern British elite’s veil of pseudo-egalitarianism

  An analysis of how today’s ruling caste work very hard at appearing ordinary

  
• October 19 2024
  FT Magazine

  How George Orwell became a dead metaphor

  On the use and abuse of one of Britain’s greatest writers

  
• October 8 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Trump spoke to Putin several times after he left White House, book says

  Bob Woodward says former US president also secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian leader

  
• September 30 2024
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  The best recent politics books — insights on conflict

  The US foreign policy machine in action, origins of the new cold war, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as viewed from Washington

  
• September 21 2024
  FT Books Essay

  Did the 1990s break America’s faith in democracy?

  Three new books on the US look at the Clinton decade, the rise of conspiracies and the existential threat of November’s presidential election

  
• September 6 2024
  Review

  On Leadership by Tony Blair — things should only get better

  The former UK prime minister’s ‘how to’ manual captures his infectious optimism and mastery of the political arts

  
• August 7 2024
  Review

  From Labour’s vision for Britain to sewage and struggling prisons

  A clutch of books on British politics aims to diagnose the policy mistakes and leadership failures of recent years

  
• July 17 2024
  Review

  Lost Decade — how the US fell behind in checking China

  Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine give an authoritative, if bureaucratic, take on American foreign policy’s slow pivot to the east

  
• July 6 2024
  FT Books Essay

  Can Britain be mended?

  As the new government faces an economy, society and political system in despair, there is no shortage of prescriptions to put things right

  
• June 23 2024
  The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer

  Best summer books of 2024: Politics

  Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

  
• June 7 2024
  Review

  The Searchers by Andy Beckett — the making of the Labour left

  A portrait of the figures from Benn to Corbyn who made waves in the party but often put protest before power

  
• May 31 2024
  Review

  UK general election 2024: FT readers recommend five books to read

  A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street

  
• May 25 2024
  Review

  UK general election 2024: what books to read ahead of the July 4 ballot

  A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street by FT experts

  
• May 1 2024
  ReviewFT Books Essay

  How to understand Modi’s India

  Is India enjoying a golden age or in democratic decline? And what will the prime minister do next? As the nation goes to the polls, four books attempt to unravel its many complexities

  
• April 29 2024
  Review

  Downward Spiral by John Bowers — can British politics be saved?

  A senior barrister makes the case for fixing the ‘sense of decay’ affecting Westminster and offers detailed and robust reforms

  
• April 3 2024
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?

  As the alliance prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary, three books consider its relevance, and argue that its most difficult years may lie ahead

  
• March 19 2024
  US 2024 election: The 10 books to read ahead of the ballot in November

  FT specialists recommend the most insightful volumes on the race for the White House