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...And What Do You Do?
- What the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know
- By: Norman Baker
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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...And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians....
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What a grubby little book.
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-2024
By: Norman Baker
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Quarterly Essay 68: Hugh White on Fading America and Rising China
- By: Hugh White
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Our region is experiencing a momentous transition. The US-led order is fading, and China has become ever more powerful....
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Start thinking about the new order
- By Phil Connors on 16-12-2022
By: Hugh White
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The Long Game
- Inside Sinn Féin
- By: Aoife Moore
- Narrated by: Roisin McGowan
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland....
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Inaccurate and badly written
- By Ciaran on 02-12-2023
By: Aoife Moore
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Flashpoints
- The Emerging Crisis in Europe
- By: George Friedman
- Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....
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Excellent, Brings multiple perspectives to current realities.
- By Carl on 09-11-2022
By: George Friedman
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Baltic
- The Future of Europe
- By: Oliver Moody
- Narrated by: Kaffe Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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The Baltic's time has come. It is not only critical to Europe's security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent's future.
By: Oliver Moody
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Misjustice
- How British Law Is Failing Women
- By: Helena Kennedy
- Narrated by: Helena Kennedy
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law....
By: Helena Kennedy
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...And What Do You Do?
- What the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know
- By: Norman Baker
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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...And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians....
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What a grubby little book.
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-2024
By: Norman Baker
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Quarterly Essay 68: Hugh White on Fading America and Rising China
- By: Hugh White
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Our region is experiencing a momentous transition. The US-led order is fading, and China has become ever more powerful....
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Start thinking about the new order
- By Phil Connors on 16-12-2022
By: Hugh White
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The Long Game
- Inside Sinn Féin
- By: Aoife Moore
- Narrated by: Roisin McGowan
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland....
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Inaccurate and badly written
- By Ciaran on 02-12-2023
By: Aoife Moore
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Flashpoints
- The Emerging Crisis in Europe
- By: George Friedman
- Narrated by: Bruce Turk, George Friedman
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This provocative work examines the geopolitical flashpoints - particularly in Europe - in which imminent future conflicts are brewing....
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Excellent, Brings multiple perspectives to current realities.
- By Carl on 09-11-2022
By: George Friedman
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Baltic
- The Future of Europe
- By: Oliver Moody
- Narrated by: Kaffe Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Baltic's time has come. It is not only critical to Europe's security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent's future.
By: Oliver Moody
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Misjustice
- How British Law Is Failing Women
- By: Helena Kennedy
- Narrated by: Helena Kennedy
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law....
By: Helena Kennedy
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The Bridge
- Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
- By: Thane Gustafson
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet empire, the West faces a new era of East-West tensions. Any vision of a modern Russia integrated into the world economy and aligned in peaceful partnership with a reunited Europe has abruptly vanished....
By: Thane Gustafson
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The Abuse of Power
- Confronting Injustice in Public Life
- By: Theresa May
- Narrated by: Theresa May
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Former Prime Minister Theresa May exposes the abuse of power by public institutions and politicians in a series of riveting first-hand accounts from her time in office....
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Strong thematic overview of public service
- By Kindle Customer on 04-01-2024
By: Theresa May
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Viceroys
- By: Christopher Lee
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....
By: Christopher Lee
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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right
- How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
- By: Richard Denniss
- Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Richard Denniss looks at ways to renew our democracy and discusses everything from the fragmenting Coalition to an idea of the national interest that goes beyond economics....
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Not what I expected
- By Anonymous User on 30-08-2018
By: Richard Denniss
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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
- By: Tim Shipman
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 32 hrs and 5 mins
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Politics was turned upside down during 2016. This book by Tim Shipman is the first to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the European Union....
By: Tim Shipman
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The Phoney Victory
- The World War II Illusion
- By: Peter Hitchens
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945, many myths have sprung up around the conflict. In this audiobook, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the 'Good War'....
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Interesting throughout
- By Mr. M. Cumming on 29-08-2019
By: Peter Hitchens
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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
- By: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 6 hrs
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A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit....
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Brexit explained as English myth
- By Roger on 01-02-2023
By: Fintan O'Toole
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How to Slay a Dragon
- Building a New Russia After Putin
- By: Mikhail Khodorkovsky
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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How to Slay a Dragon is Khodorkovsky's account of his own journey and of how the vicious cycle of Russian history can be broken. He charts a pathway towards a parliamentary federal republic which would enable Russia to become a free and democratic society, living in peace and without dragons....
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Der China Code
- By: Frank Sieren
- Narrated by: Falk Werner
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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China ist eine der leistungsfähigsten Volkswirtschaften! Aber wie ist es dazu gekommen? Und wie wirkt sich das auf andere Länder...
By: Frank Sieren
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The State of Us
- The Good News and the Bad News About Our Society
- By: Jon Snow
- Narrated by: Jon Snow
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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It is rare in history that so many nations in the developed world are in crisis at the same time. There has been a disintegration of trust in political leaders and in the media that holds them to account....
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All the problems, none of the solutions
- By Anonymous User on 17-03-2023
By: Jon Snow
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National Populism
- The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (A Pelican Book)
- By: Matthew Goodwin, Roger Eatwell
- Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Written by two of the foremost experts on fascism and the rise of national populism, this lucid and deeply researched audiobook is a vital guide to our transformed political landscape....
By: Matthew Goodwin, and others
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
- Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis, Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament....
By: Yanis Varoufakis
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A War Made in Russia
- By: Sergei Medvedev, Stephen Dalziel - Translated by
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia's war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin's obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment.
By: Sergei Medvedev, and others
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Eurotrash
- Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent
- By: David Harsanyi
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Europe has been declining under the weight of its antiquated institutions, economic fatigue, moral anemia, and cultural surrender....
By: David Harsanyi
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Zelensky
- The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World
- By: Andrew L. Urban, Chris McLeod
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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The first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky....
By: Andrew L. Urban, and others
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Out of Italy
- Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
- By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean....
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in-depth history
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2022
By: Fernand Braudel, and others
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Europa
- Eine persönliche Geschichte
- By: Timothy Garton Ash
- Narrated by: Patrick Twinem
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
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Zerstört, geteilt, geeint, zwischen Taumel und Triumph: Die Geschichte Europas wie Timothy Garton Ash sie erlebt hat – als Historiker...
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The European Union
- A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
- By: John Pinder, Simon Usherwood
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy....
By: John Pinder, and others
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Protest and Power
- The Battle for the Labour Party
- By: David Kogan
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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Labour has shifted from the New Left, to New Labour, to Corbynista Labour....
By: David Kogan
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The End of Europe
- Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
- By: James Kirchick
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest....
By: James Kirchick
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20 Years of Can Asians Think? (Commemorative Edition)
- By: Kishore Mahbubani
- Narrated by: Remesh Panicker
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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It has been 20 years since Kishore Mahbubani first took the bold step of asking the politically incorrect question, "Can Asians think?"
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Hello, Shadowlands
- Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
- By: Patrick Winn
- Narrated by: Patrick Winn
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux....
By: Patrick Winn
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Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth
- History and Australia’s Future
- By: Mark McKenna
- Narrated by: Mike Bishop
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past....
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Profound and engaging challenge every Australian should listen to and think about
- By Jai Wilson on 25-11-2022
By: Mark McKenna
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The Battle for Scotland
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Andrew Marr's first book tells the distinctive story of Scottish politics - now updated with a new introductory chapter....
By: Andrew Marr