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As the party that championed trade union rights, the creation of the NHS and the establishment of a national minimum wage, Labour has played a crucial role in the shaping of British society. And yet the leaders who have stood at its helm from Keir Hardie to Sir Keir Starmer, via Clement Attlee, Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success.The requirements, techniques and goals of the Labour leadership since the partys inception at the turn of the twentieth century have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition and not all its leaders have managed to keep up.This comprehensive and enlightening book now fully updated with chapters on all Labour leaders up to Keir Starmer and an assessment of the partys leadership in relation to Brexit considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and diplomatic landscape. Offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, it also provides detailed personal biographies from some of the countrys foremost political critics and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves.An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Labour Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance.

The Art of Delivery ventures inside 10 Downing Street at the turn of the millennium to unveil how Tony Blairs government successfully transformed the public services we value most.Though the Blair government had a huge mandate, there remained fundamental challenges to success not least the BlairBrown rivalry, which manifested itself in a proxy war over the direction of public service reform. Nevertheless, over four years, the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit, led by Sir Michael Barber, upgraded the way in which the British government implemented improvements to the NHS and the education system. It also represented a watershed for how Prime Ministers engage with the real-world delivery of their priorities.Until now, much of this narrative has remained untold. Based on brand-new research and analysis, Michelle Clement uncovers the full story, drawing on 600,000 words of Sir Michael Barbers unpublished, handwritten private diaries as well as exclusive interviews and government papers. Filled with revealing insider detail, this is a human account of what it takes to effect change from behind that famous black door.

Group Captain Gilbert Insall holds a unique record: he is the only person to have both won a Victoria Cross and escaped successfully from a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War. The Madness of Courage describes how, when forced down by engine damage after destroying a German fighter, Gilbert ignored intensive shelling in order to repair his aircraft and return to base. But a few weeks later, he was shot down and captured. And thus began a distinguished career in prison breaking.He tunnelled out of Heidelberg prison camp and later hid among boxes on a horse-drawn cart to get away from Crefeld, each time being recaptured. Then, in Strohen, Gilbert and several companions concealed themselves in a claustrophobically small space they had excavated under the floor of the bathhouse. They remained there for seventeen hours, while a fruitless search for them was carried out, and eventually emerged and successfully reached Holland.Meticulously told by Gilberts great-nephew, the critically acclaimed intelligence historian Tony Insall, The Madness of Courage is a gripping true story about a remarkable man at a time before the Geneva Convention was signed, when conditions for prisoners of war were often appalling and the British War Office did little to help prisoners escape. Instead, Gilberts family, assisted by French intelligence, gave him the support he needed to break out of captivity in an extraordinary feat of bravery, resilience and ingenuity.

After fourteen years of Conservative government combined with Brexit, a global pandemic, the rise of a populist far right and the existential threat of climate change many see Britain as undergoing serious social, economic and cultural decline. This is the context in which Labour have taken office at Westminster after a decade and a half in opposition. With recent ways of doing politics, government and statecraft in crisis, how can a serious, humane alternative emerge? What scale and type of change is coming, and will it be for the better?All this raises serious questions about the future of the UK and its constituent nations, Labours ability to govern progressively, and the incoming governments confidence and capacity to take on the entrenched vested interests of present-day Britain while also having an honest, mature conversation with the public and its own supporters about the nature of these challenges.In Britain Needs Change, some of our best thinkers and commentators dissect the challenges facing the new government in a series of wide-ranging, penetrative essays. Featuring contributions from Helena Kennedy, John Curtice, Mariana Mazzucato, Neal Lawson, Aditya Chakrabortty, Ann Pettifor, Gavin Esler, Hilary Cottam, Sunder Katwala, Savitri Hensman, Fintan OToole and Andrew Gamble among others, this is required reading for anyone interested in the future of our country.

The Rainbow Government, that was how the media described the Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left coalition government that John Bruton led from late 1994 to June 1997, arguably the most left wing government in the history of the state.In Under the Rainbow, Shane Kenny uses his unique perspective as government press secretary to deliver the ultimate insider account of this crucial juncture in Irish politics; a period which contained critical breakthroughs in the Northern Ireland peace process, the most high profile murder in the history of the state (Veronica Guerin), the establishment of the payments to politicians tribunal, which finally exposed the sources of Charles Haugheys wealth, and a divorce referendum which heralded the dawn of a changing Ireland.With anecdotes and quotations from the authors own notes and tapes from the time, Under the Rainbow is a singular chronicle of political and economic achievement, aligned with professional and personal tragedy a captivating mix of the atmosphere and facts of government life.

Foreign Policy, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 A stunning investigation and indictment of the elements in United States foreign lobbying industry and the threat they pose to democracy. For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, theyve not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but theyve secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, journalist Casey Michel contends some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself. These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous, repressive regimes in the process. These lobbyists include figures like Ivy Lee, the inventor of the public relations industry - a man who whitewashed Mussolini, opened doors to the Soviets, and advised the Nazis on how to sway American audiences. They include people like Paul Manafort, who invented lobbying as we know it - and who then took his talents to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines, and then back to the White House. And they now include an increasing number of Americans elsewhere: in law firms and consultancies, among PR specialists and former lawmakers, and even within think tanks and universities. Many of these lobbyists have transformed into proxies for dictators and strongmen wherever they can be found. And for years, theyve escaped scrutiny. In Foreign Agents, Casey Michel shines a light on these foreign lobbyists, and all the damage and devastation they have caused in Washington and elsewhere. From Moscow to Beijing, from far-right nationalists to far-left communists, from anti-American autocrats to pro-Western authoritarians, these foreign lobbyists have helped any illiberal, anti-democratic government they can find. And after decades of success in installing dictator after dictator, and in tilting American policy in the process, some of these lobbyists have now begun trying to end Americas democratic experiment, once and for all.

Desde 2017, o mundo vem testemunhando o ressurgimento do Diálogo de Segurança Quadrilateral (Quad), um fórum de cooperação em defesa que reúne Estados Unidos, Japão, Índia e Austrália. Este livro inv

This remarkable book, edited by one of the UKs leading political commentators, takes us on a deep dive into nearly 200 years of British political history through its most dramatic expression: the general election. The British general election is the linchpin of our liberal democracy, and its results are often fundamental to how we live.With the next general election on the horizon, now is the perfect time to consider those that came before. From the general election of 1830, in which electoral reform was the centrepiece, to the so-called Brexit election of 2019, Iain Dale delivers a showcase of all 50 general election campaigns, with an essay for each of them penned by key political writers, including John Curtice, Julia Langdon, Simon Heffer, Peter Snow, Sue Cameron, Vernon Bogdanor, Adam Boulton and many others.If you want to get to the heart of British politics and democracy, there is no greater guide than this meticulously researched, insightful and engaging collection.

In November 1980, James Callaghan retired as leader of the Labour Party. He had been on the front line of British politics for many years and was the only person to hold all of the four great offices of state. However, his premiership is seen as a failure, the last gasp of Keynesian social democracy being smothered by the oncoming advent of Thatcherism. This book offers a timely reappraisal of Jim Callaghans premiership and time as Leader of the Opposition in 197980.

Aunque la tipografía del griego clásico tiene casi 550 años de historia, ha sido poco estudiada. Este libro pretende llenar esta laguna, haciendo un repaso exhaustivo al devenir de los caracteres griegos desde que hicieron su aparicion en un libro impreso en 1465, hasta la actualidad en que la tecnologia digital ha sustituido casi completamente a la impresion tradicional con caracteres metalicos.En los 26 capitulos de que consta este estudio, se analizan detalladamente las tipografias griegas utilizadas por impresores tan famosos como Aldo Manucio, Froben, Robert Estienne, Plantino, los Elzevir, Baskerville, Fournier, Bodoni, Didot, etc., sin olvidar los diseños de epoca moderna (Van Krimpen, Eric Gill, Hermann Zapf y Matthew Carter, entre otros), ademas de hacer un repaso al panorama digital actual, incluyendo las ultimas fuentes digitales del tipo Unicode.El libro contiene mas de 100 ilustraciones. Sin duda el mas completo estudio sobre la tipografia griega, cuya evolucion acompaña en muchos aspectos a la de la propia cultura europea, disponible actualmente en cualquier idioma.

La madre Tierra está preñada: algo está sucediendo. Se alumbran nuevos caminos, senderos más justos. A pesar de la crisis mundial y local podemos anunciar con optimismo que se observan señales. Rastreemos esos retazos, futuros ya presentes, posibles diversos, a pie de calle que apuntan hacia una democracia mucho mas plural y participativa, mas bella, donde nadie quede fuera del precioso (no contaminado) cielo estrellado. Los perdedores de la globalizacion, señores, estan gritando con voz plural y unisona: ¡conectemonos! El Papa Francisco, Vattimo, Oñate, el Concilio Vaticano II o las Teologias de la liberacion, las nuevas plataformas sociales Hay señales: ¡investiguemoslas! Unamos todos estos horizontes: los biblicos, los teologicos y los politicos que asisten nuestro mundo actual y postmoderno. Si logramos acompañarnos, conseguiremos interpretar, dejar hablar lo no dicho del pasado, el bien que no esta dado, el que tiene que poder venir si encuentra algun lugar adecuado donde poder acontecer. Si es asi, podremos disfrutar, aun con limites, de un genial tapiz. Todas las piezas del puzle estan sobre el terreno. La tierra prometida es estaaqui y ahora, y es una tierra solidaria con entrañas de misericordia. La politica, la religion y la razon siguen vivas, pero tienen un limite ¡Solo el amor podra salvarnos!Jesus Lozano Pino es malagueño, Doctor en Filosofia y Magister Universitario en Filosofia teorica y practica por la UNED (especialidad en Historia de la fi losofia y pensamiento contemporaneo). Su investigacion gira en torno a las lineas fronterizas entre fi losofia y teologia, y cuya tesis titulada Mas alla del infi nito, el limite: el amor. El oximoron de lo divino (Refl ejos biblicos, teologicos y politicos del debolismo kenotico-caritativo de Gianni Vattimo en la postmodernidad) pone en conexion al nuevo Papa Francisco y a la teologia de la liberacion con el pensamiento Oñate-Vattimo. Ex trabajador de Caritas Diocesana y ex misionero en Latinoamerica. Alli realizo labores sociales y religiosas, entre otras, ministro extraordinario de la Palabra y los Sacramentos, director de la pastoral juvenil y profesor del seminario arquidiocesano de Cd. Bolivar. Actualmente es profesor ordinario del Seminario Diocesano de Malaga, encargandose de las asignaturas de Historia de la Filosofia Moderna y Contemporanea, compaginando dicha labor con la de profesor en el CES San Jose de Malaga (Fundacion Loyola de la Compañia de Jesus).

Erstmals veroffentlicht eine Freimaurer-Loge ihr Ritual und beendet damit Spekulationen uber die Traditionen und Brauche der Freimaurer. Es handelt sich bei diesem Buch um das offizielle Arbeitsbuch mit dem Ritual der St. Johannisloge "Frater R+C", die das Ritual der amerikanischen Lehrart der Alten Freien und Angenommenen Maurer erstmals auch fur die Arbeit in gemischten Logen verfugbar macht. Mit der Veroffentlichung des Rituals sollen keine Geheimnisse verraten, sondern Transparenz geschaffen werden.

Los abogados de familia dicen que según la crisis matrimonial haya sido más o menos traumática en su generación, resultará más difícil o más sencillo asumir cuantas cosas plantea la autora de esta monografia. Como no podia ser de otro modo, la obra se encuentra vertebrada alrededor del supremo interes del menor, y desde ahi, se plantea el fundamento del derecho de relacion de los hijos con el padre no custodio desde el punto de vista constitucional y en toda su dimension normativa. Se efectua un estudio del ambito objetivo de este derecho-deber y del ambito subjetivo del mismo, destacando la estructura triangular de la figura (progenitor no custodio, menor y progenitor custodio), para despues analizar su contenido, sus formas de ejercicio y las correspondientes acciones protectoras, civiles y penales.Marcela Acuña San Martin, doctora en Derecho por la Universidad de Zaragoza, ha obtenido por la misma Universidad el Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en el Programa de Doctorado de Derecho de Familia y de la Persona. Actualmente es docente de Derecho civil y de Introduccion al Analisis del Derecho en la Universidad de Talca, Chile. Ha publicado en aquel pais varios trabajos relativos a las relaciones paterno-filiales, destacando la monografia Efectos Juridicos del divorcio (Abeledo Perrot-Thomson Reuters, 2011), y ha participado en diferentes Congresos y reuniones academicas sobre materias relacionadas con el Derecho de Familia.Mariano Yzquierdo Tolsada. Catedratico de Derecho civil. Director de la coleccion

La política en América ha experimentado una revolución: la era de la cibermilitancia. Militancia digital: La fuerza invisible de la política, desentraña las dinámicas y estrategias que han transformado la comunicacion politica en la region, mostrando como las campañas se ganan y pierden en el campo digital.Este libro te sumerge en las dos fuerzas motoras del activismo en linea: la militancia digital rentada, impulsada por inversiones estrategicas que multiplican mensajes y generan impacto calculado; y la militancia digital organica, un fenomeno donde la autenticidad y la pasion de ciudadanos comprometidos crean un efecto multiplicador imparable. Aprenderas a combinar estas fuerzas en una estrategia de interaccion eficaz, potenciando el alcance y la influencia de cualquier campaña. Y, para llevar la teoria a la practica, se incluye un ejemplo practico que guia paso a paso en el desarrollo de una campaña digital ganadora.Con ejemplos practicos contundentes, este libro revela como los lideres mas influyentes han dominado el arte de la cibermilitancia. Militancia digital: La fuerza invisible de la politica es mas que un analisis; es una hoja de ruta para politicos, estrategas y comunicadores que buscan conquistar el entorno digital y liderar en un mundo cada vez mas conectado.

Toda la obra de Tocqueville es una reflexión sobre la libertad o su ausencia, el despotismo. Su estudio de la realidad política y social de Estados Unidos le permitió diagnosticar los peligros que acarrea una democracia basada exclusivamente en la igualdad, el individualismo y el bienestar material. Esta edicion de La democracia en America incorpora notas, correspondencias, variantes e ineditos.

El desarrollo del concepto de "epistemologías del Sur" permite a Boaventura de Sousa Santos delinear un universo teórico, metodológico y pedagógico que desafía el dominio del pensamiento eurocéntrico. A partir de los conocimientos nacidos de las luchas sociales y de las experiencias de los pueblos marginalizados que resisten activamente al capitalismo, al colonialismo y al patriarcado, las epistemologias del Sur representan formas de conocimiento que son normalmente desacreditadas, silenciadas o ignoradas por las culturas dominantes del Norte global.Observando el declive de las soluciones sociales y politicas establecidas que pretendian combatir la desigualdad y la discriminacion, el autor plantea que solo puede existir una justicia global a traves de una transformacion epistemologica que garantice una justicia cognitiva global. Este cambio generaria estrategias alternativas de movilizacion politica y de activismo, proporcionando a los grupos sociales oprimidos los medios que les permitan representar el mundo en sus propios terminos y transformarlo de acuerdo a sus aspiraciones."Boaventura de Sousa Santos cuestiona el discurso impuesto desde el Norte y reivindica horizontes alternativos al capitalismo, el colonialismo o la democracia liberal". (Babelia)

Esta obra reúne dos series de ensayos escritos a lo largo de un período de veinte años (1989-2009): unos, filosóficos, se ocupan de la enunciación y la institución de los derechos fundamentales durante el proceso de las luchas de emancipacion de la modernidad; otros son intervenciones en la actualidad politica francesa acerca de acontecimientos que tuvieron una repercusion mundial por los problemas que ponian de manifiesto (en particular, la prohibicion de los "signos religiosos" en los establecimientos escolares y los motines de los suburbios en 2005).Su punto de encuentro es una problematica de las antinomias de la ciudadania en cuanto institucion de lo politico que, por su relacion originaria con la democracia, se ve obligada de manera permanente a replantearse las condiciones de legitimidad y de transformacion que le son propias. Su horizonte es un proyecto colectivo de democratizacion de la democracia, unica alternativa al proceso de "desdemocratizacion" puesto en marcha por la crisis del Estado nacional social y acelerado por la globalizacion neoliberal.El compendio incluye la reedicion del ensayo de 1989, La proposicion de la igualibertad, cuyas formulaciones estan asociadas al punto de vista "posmarxista" defendido por el autor en filosofia politica, y culmina con un ensayo inedito sobre la "co-ciudadania", en el que aplica a la circulacion de los migrantes los principios de una democracia sin exclusiones. Entre ellos se insertan varios ensayos criticos (sobre Ranciere, Esposito, Poulantzas, Arendt y Laclau) que bosquejan una de las corrientes mas significativas y actuales en filosofia de la democracia.

Análisis multidisciplinar de los procesos de redefinición acaecidos en el marco de la globalización en España. En estos últimos años, el país ha atravesado un proceso de cambio que ha desembocado en una profunda crisis, economica, politica, cultural e identitaria, que afecta a la propia idea de España y apunta hacia una nueva transicion politica y cultural.

El segundo mandato de Rodríguez Zapatero, entre 2008 y 2011, coincidió con la mayor crisis del capitalismo desde la de 1929. La economía entró en recesión en 2009 junto con otras europeas, el paro llego al 20 por ciento de la poblacion activa, el deficit alcanzo casi el 12 por ciento del PIB y la burbuja inmobiliaria con un fabuloso stock de viviendas sobrevalorado en un 40 por ciento, pusieron al pais al borde de la quiebra en una Europa en que otros, como Irlanda, Grecia y Portugal tuvieron que ser rescatados. La crisis obligo al gobierno socialista a dar un giro de 180º en su politica economica, que paso del keynesianismo al neoliberalismo. En este libro reputados especialistas analizan con rigor los diferentes aspectos de la accion de un gobierno que desnaturalizo su programa en aras de la preservacion del Estado.

When Michael Heseltine wrote his acclaimed autobiography, Life in the Jungle, he assumed his political career was over. He returned to Haymarket, his publishing business, and intended to explore more of the world and pursue his passions outside politics.His assumption was wrong. David Cameron called him, tentatively at first but gradually with increased responsibility, back to the corridors of power.This second memoir is a potpourri of reminiscences about Heseltines life and previously unexplored aspects of his stellar political career. But the main reason for Heseltine taking up his pen again has been to look back on the fundamental changes he was able to mastermind while in government and to set out the policies that are urgently needed to unite the country by driving growth, increasing prosperity and restoring hope. He combines this with new revelations about the seismic Westland scandal, the establishment cover-up that caused him to resign from Margaret Thatchers Cabinet, and a damning assessment of what he considers the grievous act of self-harm inflicted on Britain by Brexit.This extraordinary new memoir offers an urgent agenda to rebuild Britain from one of our last great statesmen, who has been at the forefront of business and politics for the past sixty years.