TY - BOOK AU - Howell,David AU - Fowler,Norman TI - Look where we're going: escaping the prism of past politics SN - 9781912690541 U1 - 320.94109 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Unicorn KW - Political leadership KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Communication KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government KW - 1979-1997 KW - 1997-2010 KW - 2010- N1 - 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 ER -