The Little Black Book Bundle

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Get the entire ‘Little Black Book’ series in one neat little package. These are your helpful and accessible little guides to the complex – seemingly intractable – challenges of our time. Now on sale! There’s holiday gifts sorted.

The Populist Right focuses on the rise of right-wing populism in the 21st century, from Germany’s AfD to Britain’s Reform UK to America’s Donald Trump. What conditions gave rise to this toxic politics of grievance, what lures working-class people to vote for these politicians, and what should those who stand against it do to fight back?

Press Barons summarises the history of British media monopolisation, uncovering the oligarchs – whether ennobled aristocrats or Silicon Valley tech titans – who control our news. It offers a pathway to a pluralistic, “re-wilded” media, an information environment insulated from monopolist power.

Artificial Intelligence deciphers the tech-speak and corporate jargon of the rising (and perhaps, shortly, falling) world of Silicon Valley AI chatbots like ChatGPT – and the ambitions and perspectives of their proprietors. A prescient book written just ahead of its time.

Lying Boris Johnson is a succinct biography of the former Prime Minister who wanted to be “world king.” It shows how seemingly small, insignificant lies were used to numb a nation to the truth, while also corrupting the very idea of decency in British politics.

Social Media is a novice’s guide to the murky world of big data analytics and algorithmic influence campaigns, showing how our shared reality – the way we collectively understand the world – has rapidly been replaced by conflicting micro-realities.