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Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist on Orangeism in Northern Ireland, nationalism, political demography and demography of the religious/irreligious.

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities is Kaufmann's expansive yet fine-tuned analysis of the current and possible responses of white majority populations in the West to the age of ethnic transformation, and the inevitable changes this will bring to its cultural composition and identity. 

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Marie Le Conte is a French journalist and political diarist living in London. She has worked for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard. Her first book 'Haven't You Heard? Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works' is a unique chance to look beneath the veneer of decorum among the British establishment and discover what really goes on each day inside the halls of power. 

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Author David Swift's analysis of the rise of the Woke and the 'identity Left' has come at a good time. In this discussion, he and Jack Aldane meet at Swift's favourite restaurant, Toulouse Lautrec in Kennington, to discuss the 2019 UK general election and the long way back to power for The Labour Party.

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In her first book Stolen: How to Save The World from Financialisation, author and economics commentator Grace Blakeley argues that we are living through the death of an old economic order based on the failed economic policies of the 20th century. As Western countries struggle to manage the rise of right-wing extremism from within and the threat of extinction from without, it is now easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The alternative to the bleak future this portends is a radical move towards democratic socialism, which Blakeley argues offers us the chance to free ourselves from the financial imperatives that have determined our lives for more than half a century, and that can avert our current course towards self-destruction. 

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Bestselling author and historian Tom Holland meets host Jack Aldane at his favourite restaurant Andrew Edmunds in SOHO to discuss his latest book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind

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Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Deputy Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a regular voice on Talking Politics and writes a regular column for New Statesman.

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Jack Brown is a lecturer of London Studies at King's College London and No. 10's first ever Researcher in Residence. The result of his year-long study of the building is 'No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street'. The book takes the reader on a tour through space and time, into the corridors and rooms that have time and again sealed the future of the UK as a nation, and into the lives of the leaders whose imprints remain visible to this day. Many former Prime Ministers have written memoirs that seek set the record straight about their time in office. Brown here brings to life the place that bears witness to each Premier's tenure, lending it its own historical voice and giving readers a rare insight into its inner-workings.

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Martin Rowson is a British editorial cartoonist and writer. His genre is political satire. His style is to consistently launch a merciless assault on unchecked power using scatological humour and by reducing his subjects to animal and inanimate states. Martin's cartoons appear in The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. He is chair of the British Cartoonists' Association.

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Michael Rosen is an English children's novelist, poet, and the author of 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He has been a TV presenter and a political columnist. On episode 10 of The Booking Club, Michael sits down to discuss his recent memoir So They Call You Pisher! and explains why he has chosen to meet in Dalston to sample what he considers London's best falafel.

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