"A Financial Times" Book of the Year, Chris Patten's "What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century" is a frank and witty survey of our geopolitical future. At the start of the twenty-first century, the challenges the world faces seem bewilderingly complex. Gone are the old assurances about the triu[...]

After spending several years in the thick of international events, the author has seen rather a lot of the world - and the people who run it. In this book, he gives us his forthright views on everything from the Tories' downfall to America's empire, from whether Blair has any political convictions t[...]