Books
"Like the geoscientist who can sense the tremors of a looming earthquake long before anyone else, Jason Cowley has consistently been ahead of the game in sensing, and then tracking, the convulsions that have been shaking Britain. Interested in pretty much everyone and everything, sensitive to the power of myths while never failing to recognise them as myths, fair yet sceptical, he is the model of a journalist."
Tom Holland, co-presenter of The Rest is History
A condition of England book about a nation undergoing seismic change.
“A haunting condition of England masterpiece. This is a beautifully written meditation of the recent English past and what understanding the plurality of Englishness demands of the English."
Professor Helen Thompson
"I can’t tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn’t have an axe to grind. To read a book where the arguments are not prejudged, where there is no attempt to fit arguments into simple cause-effect templates, where different views are assessed on the evidence rather than squeezed into prepacked ideological boxes.
Jason Cowley’s magisterial dive into the modern history of English politics and identity is, in this sense, a revelation. It is wonderfully written, the pages littered with poetic and literary references, as you might expect from an outstanding journalist.”
Matthew Syed, Sunday Times
A new introduction by Jason Cowley.
Edited and introduced by Jason Cowley.
"An essential book for anyone wishing to understand these turbulent new times."
A moving memoir about how the last match of the last full season of the 1980s symbolised the end of an era for the author and for English football. What happened and why – and what did it all mean?