Look where we're going : escaping the prism of past politics /
Howell, David, Baron Howell of Guildford, 1936-
Look where we're going : escaping the prism of past politics / David Howell ; foreword by The Lord Speaker, Norman Fowler. - 288 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, 1 map, photographs
Copy 1 inscribed by the author: To the Library and to Members and friends in your Lordships' House, in the hope that it will help. David Howell 14-10-19.
I. Origins -- The crossroads cabinet -- The wind changes -- The seventy-niners -- The tigress emerges -- Manoeuvres at court -- Origins and fears -- Unspinning the past -- II. Roots and false dawns -- Roots of the revolution -- Heath and hopes -- Wrong from the start -- A diversion : what if? -- A tale of two roles -- Ireland, Europe and the eternal question -- III. The inheritance -- Technology unravels the global order -- Asian reset -- The mother of all networks -- Flaws in the tapestry -- What is to be done? -- The new labyrinth -- The case for looking back --- How to safeguard democracy now -- Conclusions, answers, lessons, hopes -- Afterthoughts : on the head of a dictator, the power of us and catching up -- Appendix I. A 'chequered career' -- Appendix II. The Times : Mr Howell's account of the Whitelaw years in Belfast.
9781912690541
GBB9F6952 bnb
Political leadership--History.--Great Britain
Communication--Political aspects--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-2010
Great Britain--Politics and government--2010-
320.94109
Look where we're going : escaping the prism of past politics / David Howell ; foreword by The Lord Speaker, Norman Fowler. - 288 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, 1 map, photographs
Copy 1 inscribed by the author: To the Library and to Members and friends in your Lordships' House, in the hope that it will help. David Howell 14-10-19.
I. Origins -- The crossroads cabinet -- The wind changes -- The seventy-niners -- The tigress emerges -- Manoeuvres at court -- Origins and fears -- Unspinning the past -- II. Roots and false dawns -- Roots of the revolution -- Heath and hopes -- Wrong from the start -- A diversion : what if? -- A tale of two roles -- Ireland, Europe and the eternal question -- III. The inheritance -- Technology unravels the global order -- Asian reset -- The mother of all networks -- Flaws in the tapestry -- What is to be done? -- The new labyrinth -- The case for looking back --- How to safeguard democracy now -- Conclusions, answers, lessons, hopes -- Afterthoughts : on the head of a dictator, the power of us and catching up -- Appendix I. A 'chequered career' -- Appendix II. The Times : Mr Howell's account of the Whitelaw years in Belfast.
9781912690541
GBB9F6952 bnb
Political leadership--History.--Great Britain
Communication--Political aspects--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-2010
Great Britain--Politics and government--2010-
320.94109