Author: Eamonn Butler
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN: 9781906142377
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Under Gordon Brown's leadership, Britain has achieved that sinking feeling without knowing exactly why things are so bad and how it happened so fast. This book analyses what went disastrously wrong and why it will continue to get worse under current policies.
The Rotten State of Britain
Author: Eamonn Butler
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN: 9781906142377
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Under Gordon Brown's leadership, Britain has achieved that sinking feeling without knowing exactly why things are so bad and how it happened so fast. This book analyses what went disastrously wrong and why it will continue to get worse under current policies.
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN: 9781906142377
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Under Gordon Brown's leadership, Britain has achieved that sinking feeling without knowing exactly why things are so bad and how it happened so fast. This book analyses what went disastrously wrong and why it will continue to get worse under current policies.
Political English
Author: Thomas Docherty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350101400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350101400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture.
Spoilt Rotten
Author: Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN: 9781906142254
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under themultiple guises of raising children well, caring for the underprivileged, assisting the less able and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite. Dalrymple takes the reader on both an entertaining and at times shocking journey through social, political, popular and literary issues as diverse as child tantrums, aggression, educational reform, honour killings, sexual abuse, public emotions and the role of suffering, and shows the perverse results when we abandon logic in favour of the cult of feeling.
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN: 9781906142254
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under themultiple guises of raising children well, caring for the underprivileged, assisting the less able and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite. Dalrymple takes the reader on both an entertaining and at times shocking journey through social, political, popular and literary issues as diverse as child tantrums, aggression, educational reform, honour killings, sexual abuse, public emotions and the role of suffering, and shows the perverse results when we abandon logic in favour of the cult of feeling.
Captive State
Author: George Monbiot
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330369435
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Monbiot documents the end of representative government in Britain. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystander. As institutional corruption strikes at the heart of public life, in a contest between the desires of big business and the needs of the electorate, the electorate loses out every time.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330369435
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Monbiot documents the end of representative government in Britain. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystander. As institutional corruption strikes at the heart of public life, in a contest between the desires of big business and the needs of the electorate, the electorate loses out every time.
British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook
Author: Philip Norton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317343514
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
This book provides a clear conceptual framework for the understanding of British politics, influenced in broad terms by a systems approach to public policy. It considers the bodies responsible for scrutinizing and legitimizing the policies of the U.K. government: Parliament and the monarchy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317343514
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
This book provides a clear conceptual framework for the understanding of British politics, influenced in broad terms by a systems approach to public policy. It considers the bodies responsible for scrutinizing and legitimizing the policies of the U.K. government: Parliament and the monarchy.
The Rotten Heart of Europe
Author: Bernard Connolly
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301754
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
'The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet.' Observer, Editorial, 1 October 1995'Mr. Connolly's longstanding proposition that the foisting of a common currency upon so many disparate nations would end in ruin is getting a much wider hearing...' New York Times, 17 November 2011When first published in 1995, The Rotten Heart of Europe caused outrage and delight - here was a Brussels insider, a senior EU economist, daring to talk openly about the likely pitfalls of European monetary union. Bernard Connolly lost his job at the Commission, but his book was greeted as a profound and persuasive expose of the would-be 'monetary masters of the world.' His brave act of defiance became headline news - and his book a major international bestseller. In a substantial new introduction, Connolly returns to his prophetic account of the double-talk surrounding the efforts of politicians, bankers and bureaucrats to force Europe into a crippling monetary straitjacket. Hidden agendas are laid bare, skulduggery exposed and economic fallacies are skewered, producing a horrifying conclusion. No one who wants to understand the workings of the EU, past, present and future can afford to miss this enthralling and deeply disturbing book.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571301754
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
'The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet.' Observer, Editorial, 1 October 1995'Mr. Connolly's longstanding proposition that the foisting of a common currency upon so many disparate nations would end in ruin is getting a much wider hearing...' New York Times, 17 November 2011When first published in 1995, The Rotten Heart of Europe caused outrage and delight - here was a Brussels insider, a senior EU economist, daring to talk openly about the likely pitfalls of European monetary union. Bernard Connolly lost his job at the Commission, but his book was greeted as a profound and persuasive expose of the would-be 'monetary masters of the world.' His brave act of defiance became headline news - and his book a major international bestseller. In a substantial new introduction, Connolly returns to his prophetic account of the double-talk surrounding the efforts of politicians, bankers and bureaucrats to force Europe into a crippling monetary straitjacket. Hidden agendas are laid bare, skulduggery exposed and economic fallacies are skewered, producing a horrifying conclusion. No one who wants to understand the workings of the EU, past, present and future can afford to miss this enthralling and deeply disturbing book.
The Great War in England in 1897
Author: William Le Queux
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Naval History of Great Britain
Author: William James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Rebels in a Rotten State
Author: Kieran Mitton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190241586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Uses Sierra Leone as a case study in our understanding of the brutal nature of modern conflict
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190241586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Uses Sierra Leone as a case study in our understanding of the brutal nature of modern conflict
The Vindication of Great Britain
Author: Harold Begbie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description