The Alamut Ambush: another great Anthony Price novel, also available as an audio book
The Alamut Ambush is one of the early volumes in Anthony Price’s series of espionage thrillers featuring David Audley. … Read the full post »
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The Alamut Ambush is one of the early volumes in Anthony Price’s series of espionage thrillers featuring David Audley. … Read the full post »
Eitan D. Hersh’s study busts many myths about where political parties get data from, how good it is and what uses they put it to. A must read if you want to understand campaigning. … Read the full post »
If you are familiar with Tim Harford’s work, whether as an author, print journalist or broadcaster, then this book is not a surprise. … Read the full post »
This slim volume of Matt Harvey’s whimsical poetry – along with a small amount of prose and some cartoons – more than makes up in quality for the absence of quantity. … Read the full post »
Features the man who said he had invented an invisible battleship which was stolen by the Ministry of Defence and moored in the Thames outside Parliament. … Read the full post »
It is a tribute to the excellence of Eli Pariser’s book, The Filter Bubble, that even now, six years on from its publication, a volume about the latest technology trends still reads as up-to-date and relevant. … Read the full post »
The Gurkha Justice campaign, seeking to give those who had served in the British army the right to settle in Britain afterwards, is a classic and heartwarming story. … Read the full post »
Tom Standage’s book, Writing on the wall: Social media – the first 2,000 years, has at its heart one good magazine-length article. … Read the full post »
Michael Ashcroft’s latest collection of focus groups and polling around a specific election, Hopes and Fears: Trump, Clinton, the voters and the future looks at the 2016 US Presidential election . … Read the full post »
Daniel Kreiss’s Taking our country back looks at how Democrats first learned how to build digitally savvy election campaigns from scratch and then – crucially – learned how to institutionalise the technology and data. … Read the full post »