Failure In British Government
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Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Reviled by the public and disowned by politicians, the poll tax was the most celebrated political disaster in post-war Britain. This book tells the full story of the poll tax, from its conception to its demise.
Author | : Jonathan Calvert |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-03-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0008430535 |
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An astonishing book’ James O’Brien ‘A gripping, devastating read’ Sunday Times
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1780746180 |
With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling mistakes.
Author | : Fintan O'Toole |
Publisher | : Apollo |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : European Union countries |
ISBN | : 9781789540994 |
'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the English that I've read for ages'Billy Bragg. A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism. Trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact came to define the style of an entire political elite; a country that once had colonies redefined itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation. Fintan O'Toole also discusses the fatal attraction of heroic failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster. Now failure is no longer heroic - it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters. A new afterword lays out the essential reforms that are urgently needed if England is to have a truly democratic future and stable relations with its nearest neighbours.
Author | : M. Kirby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kevin Hickson |
Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1785902717 |
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.
Author | : Frank Ledwidge |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300229097 |
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge’s eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011—including Libya, ISIS, and the Chilcot findings—Ledwidge shows how lessons continue to go unlearned. “A brave and important book; essential reading for anyone wanting insights into the dysfunction within the British military today, and the consequences this has on the lives of innocent civilians caught up in war.”—Times Literary Supplement
Author | : M. Holmes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1997-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230376118 |
Second revised edition of a study of the Conservative government of 1970-74 which discusses and attacks recent revisionist interpretations which exonerate Heath from culpability for the economic and industrial meltdown of 1972-74. Reveals the economic, political and electoral misjudgements of the Heath government.
Author | : John Edward Redmond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mike Cronin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349247588 |
This book focuses on the different fascist movements which have existed in Britain during the twentieth century from the British Fascists of the 1920s to the British National Party of the 1990s. Three main themes are covered in the book: an outline of the policies, tactics and ideologies of the different movements; a discussion of the notion of failure, and how that term should be applied to British fascism; and coverage of the different strengths of British political society which are seen to have prevented a breakthrough of British fascism in the arena of electoral politics.