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Look where we're going : escaping the prism of past politics / David Howell ; foreword by The Lord Speaker, Norman Fowler.

By: Howell, David, Baron Howell of Guildford, 1936- [author.].Contributor(s): Fowler, Norman, Baron Fowler, 1938- [writer of foreword.].Publisher: London : Unicorn, 2019Description: 288 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, 1 map, photographs.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781912690541.Note: Gift: Lord Howell of Guildford.Subject(s): Political leadership -- Great Britain -- History | 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-DDC classification: 320.94109
Contents:
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.
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Book House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey 320.94109 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 017746
Book House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey 320.94109 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 017824

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.

Gift: Lord Howell of Guildford.

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