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The Case for the Centre Right
David Gauke; Contributions by Rory Stewart, Michael Heseltine, Dominic Grieve, Daniel Finkelstein, …
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics
has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has
undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that
steered British politics for decades – internationalism, respect
for the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, belief in our
institutions – were cast aside in the wake of the Brexit
referendum to the detriment of UK prosperity, electoral trust and
the long-term fortunes of the Conservative Party. But this
radical rightwards shift can and must be reversed. In this bold
intervention, David Gauke and other leading figures on the centre
right – including Michael Heseltine, Rory Stewart, Amber Rudd,
Gavin Barwell and Daniel Finkelstein - explore how the Conservative
Party morphed into a populist movement and why this approach is
doomed to fail. Together they make the case for a return to the
liberal centre right, arguing with passion and conviction that the
values that once defined the best of British conservatism remain
essential to both the Party and to the UK’s political future.
Forty years ago, London's Docklands had become 6,000 acres of
forgotten wasteland after over a century as the busiest port in the
world. Now these once-derelict docks are again filled with ships
and boats, forming homes and businesses for an extraordinary range
of people. Whether millionaires visiting on their superyachts,
country house executives needing a London base, young tech workers
wanting a cheaper place to live, jobbing craftsmen keeping ancient
marine trades alive or homeless people finding refuge, these are
varied and dynamic communities. Highly acclaimed London
photographer Niki Gorick focuses on St Katharine Docks, the Surrey
Docks and the Isle of Dogs to illustrate the rich mix of
personalities and activities in these converted commercial docks.
They enjoy central London locations but as floating communities
with their own nautical customs and rules, they are a world apart
from their land-based neighbours. These images reveal the amazingly
diverse modern-day life within these urban marinas.
Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably
identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric
novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who
flourished in the times of Claudius (41-54 CE) and Nero (54-68). As
Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to
official duties or to his amusements by night. At one time he was
governor of the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor and was also a
consul, showing himself a man of vigour when this was required.
Later he lapsed into indulgence (or assumed the mask of vice) and
became a close friend of Nero. Accused by jealous Tigellinus of
disloyalty and condemned, with self-opened veins he conversed
lightly with friends, dined, drowsed, sent to Nero a survey of
Nero's sexual deeds, and so died, 66 CE.
The surviving parts of Petronius's romance "Satyricon" mix
philosophy and real life, prose and verse, in a tale of the
disreputable adventures of Encolpius and two companions, Ascyltus
and Giton. In the course of their wanderings they attend a showy
and wildly extravagant dinner given by a rich freedman, Trimalchio,
whose guests talk about themselves and life in general. Other
incidents are a shipwreck and somewhat lurid proceedings in South
Italy. The work is written partly in pure Latin, but sometimes
purposely in a more vulgar style. It parodies and otherwise attacks
bad taste in literature, pedantry and hollow society.
"Apocolocyntosis," "Pumpkinification" (instead of deification),
is probably by Seneca the wealthy philosopher and courtier (ca. 4
BCE-65 CE). It is a medley of prose and verse and a political
satire on the Emperor Claudius written soon after he died in 54 CE
and wasdeified.
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The Case for the Centre Right
David Gauke; Contributions by Rory Stewart, Michael Heseltine, Dominic Grieve, Daniel Finkelstein, …
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R1,093
Discovery Miles 10 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics
has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has
undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that
steered British politics for decades – internationalism, respect
for the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, belief in our
institutions – were cast aside in the wake of the Brexit
referendum to the detriment of UK prosperity, electoral trust and
the long-term fortunes of the Conservative Party. But this
radical rightwards shift can and must be reversed. In this bold
intervention, David Gauke and other leading figures on the centre
right – including Michael Heseltine, Rory Stewart, Amber Rudd,
Gavin Barwell and Daniel Finkelstein - explore how the Conservative
Party morphed into a populist movement and why this approach is
doomed to fail. Together they make the case for a return to the
liberal centre right, arguing with passion and conviction that the
values that once defined the best of British conservatism remain
essential to both the Party and to the UK’s political future.
From his early days in establishing United Scientific Holdings PLC
as a multi-million pound listed company to his sudden
transformation into a senior civil servant as Chief of Defence
Procurement at the invitation of Michael Heseltine the then
Minister of Defence, followed by a move into investment banking and
unexpected appointments to act as Prime Minister John Major's
Efficiency Advisor and then run the Docklands Light Railway before
becoming Chairman and Chief Executive of the troubled Canary Wharf
development, Peter's career has uniquely straddled both the public
and private sectors at the highest levels, invariably in troubled
times. In parallel, he worked his way up the City of London's civic
hierarchy, becoming a Common Councilman, Alderman, Sheriff and
finally Lord Mayor of London which gave him the opportunity to
promote the image and services of the City across the globe. On
return to the commercial world, he resumed his post at Deutsche
Bank and subsequently joined the boards of Sainsbury's, Deutsche
Borse, IFSL, Eurotunnel, China Construction Bank and Haymarket
Media Group. Breaking with insurance industry tradition, he was
appointed as `an outsider' to the Chairmanship of Lloyd's of
London. Whilst there, he was invited by Liam Fox to chair the newly
formed `Defence Reform Group' which introduced a series of
important changes in the structure and workings of the MOD which
became known as the `Levene Reforms'. Currently he is Chairman of
the Starr Insurance Group in London and continues with a number of
other directorships as well as his involvement in several
charitable and philanthropic activities.
Considerable scientific and political interest has been expressed,
parallelling public concern about the effects of chemicals on the
immune system and the implications of those effects for health.
Coupled with speculation about the magnitude and extent of the
problem is discussion of needs for predictive testing and
regulatory control measures. The first international seminar on the
immunological system as a target for toxic damage was held in
Luxembourg in 1984. It was organized by the International Programme
on Chemical Safety (United Nations Environment
Programme-International Labour Office World Health Organization)
and the Commission of the European Communities with the support of
the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences (USA) and the participation of the
International Society of Immunopharmacology. In view of the
perceived importance of imrnunotoxicity, it was considered
necessary to organize a follow-up meeting. Thus, an international
workshop on the immunotoxicity of metals and immuno toxicology was
held in Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany, on 6-10 November
1989.
An attempt to analyse employment in Britain in which the author
examines developments in the labour market since the war and
assesses the contribution of national policy and ideology. Various
forecasts of job prospects and analysis of employment and
consumption trends are offered.
This book is the story of one garden and one family, over a 40-year
time period. In their own words, Michael and Anne Heseltine
describe the ups and downs of how they set about transforming and
expanding a wild, overgrown and often dilapidated woodland into the
magnificent garden they have today. Today, the garden at Thenford
has an arboretum which contains more than 3,500 different species
of trees and shrubs, including rare plants which were
wild-collected by well known plantsmen including Roy Lancaster OBE,
Allen Coombes, Keith Rushforth and Chris Chadwell. It is also
well-known for its sculpture garden, which has an eclectic
collection of work ranging from a white marble Tazza fountain to an
enormous statue of Lenin. Beautifully illustrated with both
professional photographs and private family images, this personal
story of the creation of an extraordinary garden will delight
horticultural experts and novices alike.
Edited with an introduction by Daniel Hughes 'A restless
shape-shifter from the mysterious Welsh Marches, Heseltine was as
elusive in his idiosyncratic writing as in his extraordinary
globetrotting life. It is good to have his work briefly pinned down
in this groundbreaking collection for closer inspection.' -
Professor M.Wynn Thomas Cariad County: a place of anarchy and
farce, of the grotesque and the slapstick, of tragedy and violent
comedy, where the local hunt is disrupted by a camel-riding hero,
where the town hall burns down as the town cheers, a place haunted
by grotesque revenants from the First World War. This is the world
of Nigel Heseltine's short stories, fantastic fictions which
lampoon and lament the slow decline of the once-powerful squires
and landowners of mid-Wales, the very Montgomeryshire of which
Heseltine (1916-1995) formed a part. Nigel Heseltine is a
long-neglected member of Wales's 'Golden Generation' of
English-language short story writers which included Dylan Thomas,
Rhys Davies and Glyn Jones. His stories appeared alongside theirs
in major magazines such as English Story and Penguin New Writing in
the 1930s and 1940s. This volume re-prints for the first time since
their initial publication the stories published in Heseltine's
Tales of the Squirearchy (1946), alongside a substantial number of
stories never previously collected. Ranging from the starkly
surreal to the subtly moving, these tales reveal Nigel Heseltine as
a singularly talented writer, the equal of his better-known
contemporaries.
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