Haywire
a political history of britain since 2000
$30.71
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2025
Summary
Haywire: Britain on the Brink Since 2000
From the Millennium Dome to Brexit, from boom to bust to Liz Truss, this is an expert, painfully funny account of Britain’s calamitous history since 2000.
Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London, once said that there are decades where nothing happens but weeks when decades happen. The first two and a half decades of this century in Britain have had plenty of those weeks. Indeed, our recent history has at times resembled…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781802063592 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1802063595 |
| Author: | Andrew Hindmoor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 469g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 29mm |
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Stylish and laconic, this is a magnificent sweep through a grave downturn in our fortunes. There is more than a hint of Edward Gibbon in Hindmoor’s elegant, magisterial prose and all his judgements are spot on. A remarkable book—Matthew ParrisEminently readable … this is a superb history of our times—Alwyn Turner, The Times[A] steely account of Britain’s backfiring start to the new millennium—Tom Crewe, London Review of Books
About The Author
Andrew Hindmoor
Andrew Hindmoor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute. He has edited the journal Political Studies and is currently an Associate Editor of New Political Economy.
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