Haywire
A Political History of Britain since 2000
$28.04
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
From the Millennium Dome to Brexit, from boom to bust to Liz Truss, an expert, painfully funny account of Britain’s calamitous history since 2000
Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London who went on to other things, has been credited with once saying 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 an epi…
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: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 469g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 130mm x 199mm |
Critics Review
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 Parris
Eminently 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
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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