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Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell review – a roadmap to the new normal

The economist and Labour candidate for Swansea West offers a hopeful vision of the nation’s future – spurning leftwing utopianism as well as tackling 14 years of creeping decline

‘I’m blessed. I’m still here’: ex-MP Patrick Duffy, 103, publishes memoirs

Oldest surviving MP can clearly recall the 1926 general strike, part of his long and immensely eventful life

Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next

An ex-UK envoy’s compelling account of the chaotic military withdrawal from the country is full of telling details, while Seierstad’s latest work drives home the cruel reality of women’s lives after the return of Taliban rule

Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’

Former Australian prime minister issues warning that young men’s thinking on the issue is going backward

Being a politician was ‘very yucky’, ex-MP Rory Stewart tells Hay audience

Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at once

The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn

An absorbing study of the radical left makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises the Jeremy Corbyn years

Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’

The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son

Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

Former PM’s first-week sales compare with 21,000 for David Cameron’s memoir and 92,000 for Tony Blair book

Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?

Just because we find a political leader ludicrous, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous, writes Adrian Chiles

Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – economical with the truth about her own downfall

The former PM’s whingeing, unintentionally hilarious and scapegoating rant about the economy-crashing disaster of her time in No 10 is best read as a cautionary tale of hubristic zeal

Hoopla around Truss and Rayner shows Michael Ashcroft still steering the debate

Former Tory chair turned political biographer and publisher is behind books that have put former PM and Labour’s deputy in the spotlights

Lemn Sissay: ‘brilliant’ plans to improve child social care ignored by ministers

Poet says government has rejected some 2022 MacAlister recommendations because reforming system is not a vote winner

‘Five-year-old on acid’: Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace

Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to do

Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – shamelessly unrepentant

The former PM’s account of her time in office is unstoppably self-serving, petulant, and politically jejune

What does Liz Truss’s book tell us about her American ambitions?

The former prime minister spent just 49 days in office but wants to stay on the world stage. Her attacks on Biden and praise for Trump are aimed at the populist right

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