{"product_id":"year-of-the-rat","title":"Harry Shukman: Year of the Rat [2025] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe British far right is working to dismantle our democracy. This shocking, eye-opening undercover journey reveals who they are, how they operate and how they are normalising extreme ideologies including eugenics. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn summer 2024, riots swept England in the biggest wave of far-right violence in the post-war period. But far-right activity takes many other forms as well, all of them dangerous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalist Harry Shukman knows the dangers all too well: he'd gone undercover to infiltrate these groups. For over a year, he carefully attached his hidden lapel camera and pretended to be an extremist named Chris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow Shukman as he hangs out in the pub with a secretive community network, canvasses with political party Britain First and attends a neo-Nazi conference. We meet a circle of Holocaust deniers, a race science organisation with a major Silicon Valley investor and right-wing think tanks supported by Conservative policymakers. What we witness is hard to believe, or stomach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYear of the Rat \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping and urgent expose - nail-bitingly tense, darkly absurd and utterly chilling. Risking his safety and sanity, Shukman has removed the far right's terrifyingly everyday mask. Now, we must ensure it stays off.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shukman, Harry","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50766038106451,"sku":"9781784746056","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/harry-shukman-harry-shukman-year-of-the-rat-2025-paperback-9781784746056-1155472744.jpg?v=1744416932","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/year-of-the-rat","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}