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Politics books

1 September 2024

  • Five men wearing suits and ties, with some of them listening to wired phones, sit side by side, looking focused

    At War with Ourselves by HR McMaster review – ex-adviser vents spleen about Trump

  • A law professor gazes from a balcony surrounded by tree branches

    Erwin Chemerinsky on the need for a new US constitution: ‘Our democracy is at grave risk’

  • Tony Blair sitting in a red armchair

    Tony Blair: ‘I would have stayed if I could, is the truth’

  • Nadhim Zahawi leaving No 10 after being named as the education secretary by Boris Johnson in 2021

    Observer book of the week
    The Boy from Baghdad: From Waziriyah to Westminster by Nadhim Zahawi review – an unlikely journey

August 2024

  • A middle-aged woman in front of a bookshelf.

    Donald Trump pushed me to ketamine therapy, niece Mary says in new book

  • Conservative Party Conference 2022<br>Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng during a visit to a construction site for a medical innovation campus in Birmingham, on day three of the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 4, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Tory. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – how not to be PM

  • Larry Siedentop

    Other lives
    Sir Larry Siedentop obituary

  • A woman stocking a food bank

    Which benefits are available to vulnerable people under Labour?

  • Vladimir Putin manipulated Donald Trump’s ‘ego and insecurities’, book says

  • How Tyrants Fall by Marcel Dirsus review – road to revolution

  • Five of the best
    Five of the best books about Indian politics

  • Observer book of the week
    The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi review – politics with principles

  • On the Edge by Nate Silver review – the art of risk-taking

  • Book of the day
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

  • The big idea
    The big idea: how do you get rid of a dictator?

  • Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

  • Book of the day
    Failed State by Sam Freedman review – how to fix Britain

  • Bookmark this
    New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

  • Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – the case for democracy

July 2024

  • The inauguration of the Ram Mandir temple in Ayodhya, northern India.

    Book of the day
    The New India by Rahul Bhatia review – how nationalism changed a country

    The voices of ordinary Indians take centre stage in this absorbing account of political transformation
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