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Author : Harry Cole
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780008605810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Out of the Blue written by Harry Cole and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2024-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192691112
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Prime Ministerial Court written by R. A. W. Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Court politics is about who in British government did what to whom, when, how, why, and with what consequences. In The Prime Ministerial Court Rod Rhodes provides a thorough depiction of the court politics of the Conservative governments of the twenty-first century, namely the courts of David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. Exploring specific topics, including the courtiers, the prime minister's craft, reshuffles, resignations, and leadership challenges, and the political games and feuds in the court between ministers, advisers, and civil servants, Rhodes concludes that the British government has a new Establishment in which the skills of 'knavery' abound. He finds evidence of betrayal, revenge, lying, scandals, and bullying with such machinations oiled by gossip, humour, and alcohol. Analysing the everyday practice of the 'dark arts' by the British political and administrative elite, each chapter includes a short case study of the court in action, covering the education wars, the 2018 election, and the Covid-19 crisis. Each case illustrates the personal, electoral, and governmental consequences of court politics. Rhodes warns that there are more and more knaves, decency is in decline, and British government needs 'rules for rulers'. Above all, he cautions citizens - 'beware, here be dragons'.
Author : Ben Riley-Smith
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1399810324
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Blue Murder written by Ben Riley-Smith and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON THE 2024 ELECTION A GUARDIAN AND DAILY TELEGRAPH POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'BRILLIANT' ANDREW MARR 'MAJESTIC' GUARDIAN 'ESSENTIAL' JON SOPEL 'A CRACKING READ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A SHARP INSIDER ACCOUNT' NEW STATESMAN The full inside story of fourteen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. In 2010 David Cameron's Conservative Party came into power with a promise of stability. Fourteen years and five prime ministers later, the Tories have been swept away, divided and decimated. What went wrong? From the ashes of a financial crisis to a break from the EU to a global pandemic, prime ministers have changed dramatically while the Tories remained in power. Merciless rebellions and the swift ousting of leaders enabled this, but the same ruthlessness ultimately brought about their downfall. Blue Murder links stories of betrayal in Cameron's coalition, the travails of May, the sagas of Johnson, the Truss implosion and the Sunak spiral. Through his unique access and unmissable inside stories, Ben Riley-Smith's thrilling account is essential for anyone wondering how the Tories carved out the political opportunity of a generation and then tore themselves apart. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE RIGHT TO RULE.
Author : Alun Evans
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785908871
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Intimacy of Power: An insight into private office, Whitehall's most sensitive network written by Alun Evans and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the corridors of power during a major crisis or after a ministerial reshuffle? How do new government ministers get to grips with their portfolios and priorities? Who guides and supports them? And why, sometimes – during events such as 'Partygate' – do things go wrong? In this meticulously researched book, former senior civil servant Alun Evans lifts the lid on a vital but little-known cog in the machinery of government: private office and the private secretaries who work within it. Private secretaries exercise huge influence, and yet most of us have never heard of them. They are the ones who manage the flow of work, who whisper quietly in ministers' ears and who have been Prime Ministers' closest, most trusted and most discreet confidants. At critical moments in our national history – from the Falklands War to the Westland affair, from Black Wednesday to the 2008 financial crash, from New Labour to the coalition government – they have been central but hidden players. With exceptional access to former Prime Ministers and decision-makers, Evans explores what private office is and why it matters to British democracy. He argues that following the egregious constitutional breaches of Boris Johnson's premiership, private office must once again be taken seriously so it can return to being the independent junction box of government and a vital part of the British constitution.
Author : Samuel Earle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1398518522
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Tory Nation written by Samuel Earle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE ‘Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre’ David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ________________________________________________ Why do British politics so often play out on the Tories’ terms? What does this say about our democracy? In his revelatory book, Samuel Earle explores the roots of the current crisis and the real reasons for the Conservatives’ unsettling success, from their ruling-class origins in the eighteenth century and their disproportionate influence of the British press to their stranglehold over national identity. He sheds light on the Conservatives’ historic appeal among the working classes and why the Labour Party so often disappoints. Tory Nation describes the making of Britain through one party’s astonishing power over us. It’s only by reaching into our history, Earle argues, that we can understand how we got here – and how we can find a way out. ________________________________________________ 'Written with historical depth and literary flair' NEW STATESMAN ‘Earle has set out clearly and eloquently why our democracy is incapable of solving our political problems’ ROBERT VERKAIK, author of Posh Boys ‘Gripping and indispensable’ NESRINE MALIK, author of We Need New Stories
Author : Shashi Jayakumar
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811297207
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Peter Ho's Menagerie written by Shashi Jayakumar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Ho, former head of Singapore's Civil Service, has during his decades of public service brought to bear a deep appreciation of futures thinking, complexity, and strategic surprise to multiple aspects of governance and security. This volume, presented to Peter on the occasion of his 70th birthday, brings together contributions from his friends (from Singapore and beyond) and collaborators over many years of work covering several fields. The contributions touch on areas such as foresight, 'wicked problems', 'black swans', challenges to governance, Artificial Intelligence, and intelligence matters. The foreword is written by Teo Chee Hean, Singapore's Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security, and a longstanding friend of Peter.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009429779
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Impossible Office? written by Anthony Seldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?
Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040045472
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book ‘Just Like Us’?: The Politics of Ministerial Promotion in UK Government written by Bill Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by interviews with key political figures and commentators, this entertaining and enlightening book exposes the influences, processes and motivations behind ministerial promotion in British government. It identifies and analyses the political sinews that have influenced the selection and upward progression of our rulers since the middle of the last century. Given that politics is fuelled by ambition, it provides commentary on how this often-criticised emotional drive can work positively in practice, motivating politicians to strive constantly for advancement in their quest for power and achievement. Drawing upon many biographies, it explains how politics is essentially about the strengths and frailties of the people who occupy positions of power. It illustrates that climbing up that greasy pole is dependent upon a number of key character traits of politicians: their strength of desire; their abilities/skills as communicators, managers and administrators; the ways in which fate throws up opportunities; and the raw courage of politicians in confronting these challenges. Ultimately, the book illuminates the abiding obsessions of that tiny but potent minority in democratic societies who dare to dream they can rule over us. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and anyone interested in British political history, biography and the politics of executive government.
Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009473093
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024 written by Anthony Seldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After fourteen years of Conservative government, we rightly ask what changed for the better or worse during this prolonged period of power? The country experienced significant challenges including austerity, Brexit and Covid: did they militate against the government's making more lasting impact? Bringing together some of the leading authorities in the field, this book examines the impact of Conservative rule on a wide range of economic, social, foreign and governmental areas. Anthony Seldon, Tom Egerton and their team uncover the ultimate 'Conservative effect' on the United Kingdom. With powerful insights and fresh perspectives, this is an intriguing study for anyone seeking to understand the full scope of the Conservative government's influence on our nation. Drawing the immediate lessons from the last fourteen years will be pivotal if the country is to rejuvenate and flourish in the future.
Author : Don Cupitt
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048737
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Sea of Faith written by Don Cupitt and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text began in the 1860s as a phrase from Matthew Arnold's picture of the decline of religion as the retreat of the tide on Dover's beach. The book has had a significant impact, for its account of historical developments and its presentation of Christian non-realism.
Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849542120
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book After the Coalition written by Kwasi Kwarteng and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In After the Coalition five new Conservative Members of Parliament tackle the challenges of contemporary Britain. They argue that Conservative principles adapted to the modern world are essential for national success. For Britain to prosper in today's global economy, we need a new era of responsibility, for governments as well as individuals. The Conservative Party last won a general election in 1992. The formation of the coalition in 2010 ushered in a politics of compromise for the important task of bringing the deficit under control. At the next election, the Conservative Party may well fight for its own mandate. What that will be and the ideas supporting it need to be defined now. After the Coalition is an attempt to do precisely this.
Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137032243
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Britannia Unchained written by Kwasi Kwarteng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are triumphing in this new age, seeking lessons Britain must implement to carve out a bright future.
Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067472965X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Fire and Ashes written by Michael Ignatieff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.
Author : Dmitri Volkogonov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105723
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Autopsy For An Empire written by Dmitri Volkogonov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure. Having utilized his still-unequaled access to the Soviet military archives, Communist Party documents, and secret Presidential Archive, Volkogonov sheds new light on some of the major events of twentieth-century history and the men who shaped them. We witness Lenin’s paranoia about foreigners in Russia, and his creation of a privileged system for top Party members; Stalin’s repression of the nationalities and his singular conduct of foreign policy; the origins and conduct of the Korean War; Kruschev’s relationship with the odious secret service chief, Beria, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Brezhnev’s vanity and stupidity; a new view of Poland and Solidarity; the ossification of Soviet bureaucracy and the cynicism of the Politburo; and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Leninism and his role in history. By profiling the seven successive Soviet leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, Volkogonov also depicts in painstaking detail the progressive self-destruction of the Leninist system. In his clear-eyed character assessments and political evaluations, lucidly translated and edited by Harold Shukman, Dmitri Volkogonov has once again performed an invaluable service to twentieth-century history.
Author : Mike Lofgren
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160123X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Party Is Over written by Mike Lofgren and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead. Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill—but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected. Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.
Author : Nigel Fletcher
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781907278082
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book How to be in Opposition written by Nigel Fletcher and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from leading academics and practitioners, combining first-hand accounts of the challenges of life in the political shadows with detailed analysis of its opportunities and vital importance.
Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785902717
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book John Major: An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? written by Kevin Hickson and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year marks the twentieth anniversary of one of the most momentous general elections this country has ever seen. John Major's defeat in 1997 ended a record eighteen years of Tory government, prompting accusations of failure and ignominy. A controversial leader, Major oversaw numerous crises in international and domestic policy. Between 1990 and 1997, he presided over Britain's participations in the Gulf War, the start of the Northern Ireland peace process, the Maastricht Treaty negotiations and, famously, Black Wednesday and Britain's exit from the ERM. Towards the end, Major's government was split over Europe and ridden with allegations of sleaze. Widely criticised by the media and politicians from all parties, Major went on to be crushed by Tony Blair and New Labour in the 1997 general election. An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? is the first wide-ranging appraisal of John Major's government in nearly two decades. This book reconsiders the role of John Major as Prime Minister and the policy achievements of his government. Major's government faced many more constraints and left behind a more enduring legacy than his critics allowed at the time or since.
