One of the leading experts on Uyghur society and Chinese surveillance systems, and anthropologist at the University of Washington, Darren Byler’s study of China’s camps in Xinjiang evokes past evils with a definite technological edge, reveals how China used a vast network of technology provided by private companies – facial surveillance, voice recognition, smartphone data,…
The Greek, city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, two thousand years ago laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. Historian Roderick Beaton, emeritus professor of modern Greek and Byzantine history, language and literature at King’s College London, traces history from the Bronze Age Mycenaeans who built powerful fortresses at…
Irish writer and journalist, Fintan O’Toole gives an insightful, interweaving and fascinating story of the upheavals of Irish history from 1958 to the present, as Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades. He also maps his country’s “dilemma of modernity”: How to achieve economic transformation while maintaining the country’s distinctive culture, by…
A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all the US. In 1968 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands of Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won…
Back in 1800s the human race have worked out more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the more the Earth’s temperature will rise, as the global warming had begun and there should be striking changes in the climate unless it burned less carbon releasing fossil fuels. Its use of coal, oil and gas continued to boom,…
Michael Through Michael Vatikotis’s lenses Middle East’s unending conflict and violence, lost in the litany of perpetual strife and struggle are the layers of culture and civilisation that accumulated over centuries. Middle East was once a region known poetically as the Levant – a reference to the East , where the sun rose. Amid the…
A critical political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall crumbling and an exploration of how, in the election of December 2019 a seismic switch to the Tories took place, from Sebastian Payne, Financial Times, Whitehall Editor and an award winning journalist. The red wall formed the foundation of…
Professor Bobby Duffy’s compelling book, reveals our preconceptions are just tired stereotypes by expressing when we’re born determines our attitudes to money, sex, religion, politics, and much else, informed by unique analysis of hundreds of studies. Duffy, formerly of polling company Ipsos Mori, now director of The Policy of Institute at King’s College, London, concludes…
Protagonist, Charlie Barnes is a true mid-century man, struggling for meaning in the Chicago suburbs, despite growing up in prosperous America in the years after the second world war, as his life has been bust after bust. We meet him, at the brink of the 2008 crash, living in the suburbs of Chicago, trying to…
Entrepreneur, Peter Thiel, a right wing student at the Stanford University in the 1980 as a burgeoning conservative, and a tech investor from Silicon Valley over the past two decades, became the ardent backer of Donald Trump. The Contrarian is the biography of venture capitalist Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker…