Strangeland

How Britain Stopped Making Sense

By: Jon Sopel

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Paperback | 9 September 2025

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From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of The News Agents podcast, comes his most ambitious book to date- an incisive examination of Britain's New Normal, and what it means for our future.

From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of Britain's New Normal, and what it means for our future.

'I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too'
JOE LYCETT

'A thrilling, nerve-wracking book. You couldn't make the last ten years up; thanks to Jon Sopel, you don't have to'
PETER FRANKOPAN

'A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster'
ARMANDO IANNUCCI

'Acute and unflinching - Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones, and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic'
MISHAL HUSAIN

Returning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting - or maybe discombobulating would be a better word. It is, after all, my home; it is where I grew up, a country I love and am proud of. But either it's changed, or I have. Maybe both.
It just feels like a strange land.

After eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK to find a very different place than the one he left. In his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, Jon explores what has happened to the country he once knew. Either Britain has changed dramatically, or he has. Perhaps it's both.

With a second Trump administration already making headlines weekly, and a new bonus chapter examining America's influence over own isle, Strangeland paints an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.

About the Author

Jon Sopel has been the BBC’s North America Editor since 2014. He has covered the 2016 election and Trump's White House at first hand, reporting for the BBC across TV, radio, and online. As a member of the White House Press Corps, he has accompanied both President Obama and President Trump on Air Force One and interviewed President Obama at the White House. He has travelled extensively across the US and recently rode a Harley Davidson down the West Coast (that wasn't for work though). He lives in Washington and London. He is the author of the If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes from Trump's America.

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