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Books : Society, Politics & Philosophy : Government & Politics : Countries & Regions : UK : Political Parties : Conservative Party
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22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription of the early days of the government.
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The main assault on freedom of expression comes from the Left, in the form of political correctness. At the same time other traditional and customary frontiers between Left and Right have melted away. This title dissects the political landscape in which traditional values of Right and Left have been eroded away.
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The second edition of this successful text has been thoroughly updated to take into account recent research, and now begins at 1830. Charmley examines the history of the party and takes the story through the recent 'wilderness years' following the 1997 election fiasco, right up to David Cameron's leadership.
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The Conservatives under David Cameron provides the first and definitive analysis of the development of 'New Conservative' ideology and policy during the tenure of David Cameron, identifying both continuity and change, and evaluating the party's fitness to govern.
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Lifting the lid on the most captivating story in British politics today, 'Back from the Brink' charts the Conservative Party's remarkable journey from the political wilderness to the threshold of power.
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The old rules of Left and Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade and the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The 'progressive' BBC gives a fair hearing to the Conservative Party. Socialist journalists turn and rend Ken Livingstone. In democratic London, merely expressing your opinion can be seriously bad for your career, while in autocratic Moscow you can say pretty much what you like, provided you don't do anything about it. The tearing down of the old Iron Curtain may have allowed markets to sweep into the old Warsaw Pact lands, but it has also permitted revolutionary left-wing ideas to spread like a bacillus through the a??Westa??. Nobody really cares any more about the old shibboleths of state ownership. The British Labour Party - which opposed nuclear weapons, supposedly on principle, when they mattered is quite happy to spend billions on the same weapons now that they are unnecessary. The supposed Right is as confused and nonsensical as the supposed Left. Neo-conservatives run vast budget deficits at home and engage in utopian adventures abroad. They are actively opposed to old conservative ideas such as national sovereignty, strong families and rigorous selective education, and happy to bend the knee to left-wing orthodoxies from man-made global warming to egalitarianism. Hitchens argues that the political compas
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Puts forward the premise that during the Margaret Thatcher premiership Britain came to be greatly transformed, mostly for the better and mostly by Britain pulling herself up by her own bootstraps. This edition includes an introductory essay situating Margaret Thatcher as a statesman in an historical perspective.
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Thatcherism produced dramatic changes, both in Britain and abroad. This expanded second edition brings the book up to date and surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed.
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The masterly official biography of Britain's former prime minister, which captures all the political drama of the 1970s, so relevant for the present day
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In this study of her style and performance, Mrs Thatcher emerges as both the midwife and the product of the collapse of consensus.