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 [author.]
.Contributor(s): Fowler, Norman, Baron Fowler [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 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 320.941086 STA The state of the nations 2008 / | 320.94109 BOG Devolution in the United Kingdom / | 320.94109 HOW Look where we're going : escaping the prism of past politics / | 320.94109 HOW Look where we're going : escaping the prism of past politics / | 320.94109034 ADE Gladstone, Disraeli and later Victorian politics / | 320.94109034 BAE The rise and fall of radical Westminster, 1780-1890 / | 320.94109034 HAW British party politics 1852-1886 / |
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.