Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged Hardcover by Rafael Behr

Title in this Set: Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged Condition: BRAND NEW Format : PaperbackISBN :9781838955045 Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged : We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go but politics stays divided and toxic.It is tempting to switch off the news, tune out and hope things will get back to normal. Except, this is the new normal, and our democracy can only work if enough people stay engaged without getting enraged. But how? About the Author: Rafael Lawrence Behr (born 7 June 1974) is a British journalist and author. He has been a political columnist and leader writer at The Guardian since 2014. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, Sky News and various political podcasts. His work has also appeared in Prospect magazine, The Times, The Sunday Times, The New York Times and The Irish Times. In 2023 he published his first book, Politics, A Survivor's Guide.Before writing his column at The Guardian, Behr was political editor of the New Statesman.He has previously been chief leader writer and online editor for The Observer and a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, covering the Baltic States and Russia. In 2014, Behr was named political commentator of the year at the 2014 Comment Awards.In 2019, he was shortlisted for the same award.In his career before journalism, Behr worked as a political risk analyst reporting on the countries of the former Soviet Union.