Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn’t mean that we can’t do much better.

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life today.

February 2026

The Banker Who Made America

Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821

Richard Vague

If you haven’t followed the money, chances are you don’t know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America’s dominant merchant trader, first bank president, and first central banker, Thomas Willing.

In this book, Richard Vague shows how Willing bankrolled – and in the process helped save – the Revolution and then fundamentally shaped the financial architecture of the young Republic.

February 2026

Judeophobia

A History

Shlomo Sand

Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatisation, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation.

This concise history of anti-Jewish hatred will be of great interest to anyone concerned with one of the most insidious and persistent features of Western civilization.

April 2026

Same Player Shoots Again

A Biography of the Pinball Machine

Andreas Bernard

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an avid pinballer, reflects on what the disappearance of pinball machines tells us about the modern transformation of leisure time and public spaces.
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March 2026

The Great Realignment

Why the New Right is Here to Stay

Stephen Davies

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere.

Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about ‘populism’ or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends.

April 2026

The New Dark Age

Why Liberals Must Win the Culture War

Nigel Biggar

In an increasingly polarised age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticised as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they rather more fundamental than that?

In this thoughtful and passionate intervention, renowned theologian and moral philosopher Nigel Biggar argues that ‘culture wars’ are in fact political and moral debates that cut to the very quick of some of the most substantial questions of our time, ranging from the welfare of children to the way we conceive and manage ethnic and cultural differences in diverse societies.

April 2026

The Closing of the Russian Mind

How Putin’s Ideology Took the Nation Hostage

Andrei Kolesnikov

Not so long ago, Russia under Putin appeared to be a corrupt state run by an elite mainly interested in their own privileges and wealth: authoritarian but not fundamentally expansionist.

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine made it clear that Putin is driven by far more than simply greed. Putin’s Russia is, Andrei Kolesnikov argues, in the grip of intense ideological radicalization, seeking to mobilize its population in support of a form of chauvinistic neo-imperialism using increasingly totalitarian methods.

April 2026

Gaza

The Dream and the Nightmare

Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward

In this urgent and compelling book, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward tell the story of Gaza from its early foundations, across decades of occupation, to the devastation of the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on elites or abstract politics, at the book’s heart are ordinary Gazans – students, aid workers, journalists, and teachers – whose first-hand testimonies vividly illuminate the realities behind the headlines.

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January 2026

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

And How to Make It Better

Alan Manning

Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn’t mean that we can’t do much better.

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life today.

February 2026

The Banker Who Made America

Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821

Richard Vague

If you haven’t followed the money, chances are you don’t know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America’s dominant merchant trader, first bank president, and first central banker, Thomas Willing.

In this book, Richard Vague shows how Willing bankrolled – and in the process helped save – the Revolution and then fundamentally shaped the financial architecture of the young Republic.

February 2026

Judeophobia

A History

Shlomo Sand

Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatisation, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation.

This concise history of anti-Jewish hatred will be of great interest to anyone concerned with one of the most insidious and persistent features of Western civilization.

April 2026

Same Player Shoots Again

A Biography of the Pinball Machine

Andreas Bernard

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an avid pinballer, reflects on what the disappearance of pinball machines tells us about the modern transformation of leisure time and public spaces.
.

March 2026

The Great Realignment

Why the New Right is Here to Stay

Stephen Davies

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere.

Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about ‘populism’ or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends.

April 2026

The New Dark Age

Why Liberals Must Win the Culture War

Nigel Biggar

In an increasingly polarised age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticised as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they rather more fundamental than that?

In this thoughtful and passionate intervention, renowned theologian and moral philosopher Nigel Biggar argues that ‘culture wars’ are in fact political and moral debates that cut to the very quick of some of the most substantial questions of our time, ranging from the welfare of children to the way we conceive and manage ethnic and cultural differences in diverse societies.

April 2026

The Closing of the Russian Mind

How Putin’s Ideology Took the Nation Hostage

Andrei Kolesnikov

Not so long ago, Russia under Putin appeared to be a corrupt state run by an elite mainly interested in their own privileges and wealth: authoritarian but not fundamentally expansionist.

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine made it clear that Putin is driven by far more than simply greed. Putin’s Russia is, Andrei Kolesnikov argues, in the grip of intense ideological radicalization, seeking to mobilize its population in support of a form of chauvinistic neo-imperialism using increasingly totalitarian methods.

April 2026

Gaza

The Dream and the Nightmare

Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward

In this urgent and compelling book, Julie M. Norman and Maia Carter Hallward tell the story of Gaza from its early foundations, across decades of occupation, to the devastation of the ongoing war. Rather than focusing on elites or abstract politics, at the book’s heart are ordinary Gazans – students, aid workers, journalists, and teachers – whose first-hand testimonies vividly illuminate the realities behind the headlines.

.

January 2026

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

And How to Make It Better

Alan Manning

Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn’t mean that we can’t do much better.

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life today.

February 2026