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Including contributions from Charles Kennedy, Lord Steel, Sir
Graham Watson and two former Scottish Ministers, "Unlocking
Liberalism" is a new collection of essays on how the Liberal
Democrats should re-establish themselves as the voice of radicalism
in the UK after the 2015 General Election. It aims to re-establish
the anti-establishment, challenging radicalism which characterised
the Party prior to the 2010 coalition, and to reinvigorate the
concept of the general interest. It centres on a brilliant essay on
the nature of Liberalism by Nigel Dower, an academic philosopher
who was President of the International Development Ethics
Association from 2002 to 2006. Other sections focus on the
financial crash and its aftermath; the place of the UK in Europe
and the world; and how geographical justice can be attained within
the UK.
This book is deliberately named after the famous Liberal Yellow
Book of 1928. The reason for this is that we are seeking to
articulate a Liberalism of the people, that speaks to modern
Scotland, that offers a radical and practical inspiration for the
future that will offer hope to young people, a personal future and
place to those damaged by the aftermath of the banking crisis, and
a mission to make our country a more equal and buoyant one, not
fractured by social division, hopelessness and inequality. The
Little Yellow Book is also intended to be something of a
counterblast to the philosophy offered by the Orange Book of 2004.
The Orange Book is well within the Liberal tradition and contains
much of value to which Liberal Democrats can subscribe. But the
belief that the private sector should be the driver of public
services, that health services can be traded in a free market like
widgets, that Government is a worse service-provider than monopoly
private interests - these are not propositions we take to or regard
as particularly Liberal. On the contrary, we believe that a society
where MPs, the media, the banks and the big institutions have all
successively been found wanting points to the crying need for a
more rigorous sense of public and personal ethics, and for a
strengthened concept of the public interest - ideas which have been
central to Liberalism since the days of Gladstone.
Steve Coogan's legendary chat show host and broadcaster finally
receives the big screen treatment in this comedy directed by Declan
Lowney. Occupying a career stasis-defining role as a mid-morning DJ
on North Norfolk Digital Radio, Alan Partridge (Coogan)'s hopes for
one last shot at the big time suffer a severe setback when it
emerges that his employers have been taken over by a giant media
conglomerate. Alan soon finds himself back in the spotlight,
however, when newly-sacked fellow DJ Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney)
returns to the studio with a shotgun and begins taking hostages.
Called in by the police to act as a hostage negotiator, can
Britain's most famous Toblerone addict turn the tables and finally
save the day?
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (DVD)
Steve Coogan, Sean Pertwee, Colm Meaney, Anna Maxwell Martin, Nigel Lindsay, …
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Steve Coogan's legendary chat show host and broadcaster finally
receives the big screen treatment in this comedy directed by Declan
Lowney. Occupying a career stasis-defining role as a mid-morning DJ
on North Norfolk Digital Radio, Alan Partridge (Coogan)'s hopes for
one last shot at the big time suffer a severe setback when it
emerges that his employers have been taken over by a giant media
conglomerate. Alan soon finds himself back in the spotlight,
however, when newly-sacked fellow DJ Pat Farrell (Colm Meaney)
returns to the studio with a shotgun and begins taking hostages.
Called in by the police to act as a hostage negotiator, can
Britain's most famous Toblerone addict turn the tables and finally
save the day?
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Four Lions (DVD)
Kayvan Novak, Preeya Kalidas, Will Adamsdale, Riz Ahmed, Craig Parkinson, …
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Discovery Miles 1 350
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Black comedy directed by Chris Morris ('Brass Eye', 'The Day
Today'). Riz Ahmed plays Omar, a devout British-based Muslim who
forms a small terrorist group. Omar is an unconvincing leader and
his team of fellow terrorists are just as unimpressive. Among them
are dim-witted Waj (Kayvan Novak), shy and quiet Faisal (Adeel
Akhtar) and recently-converted white Muslim, Barry (Nigel Lindsay),
whose passion far outweighs his knowledge. Omar and his comrades
come up with several destructive plans, including using birds as
explosives and bombing mosques in an attempt to provoke non-violent
Muslims. But do this rag-tag team of terrorists really pose a
genuine threat to Britain?
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