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The Cameron delusion / Peter Hitchens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hitchens, Peter, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Great Britain.
- Political culture.
- Political parties--Great Britain.
- Political parties.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Great Britain--Politics and government--2007-.
- Great Britain.
- Conservative Party (Great Britain).
- Labour Party (Great Britain).
- Cameron, David, 1966 October 9-.
- Cameron, David.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- Updated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Continuum, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how and why British politics has sunk to this dreary level - the takeover of the parties and the media by conventional left-wing dogmas which then call themselves 'the centre ground'. The Tory party under David Cameron has become a pale-blue twin of New Labour, offering change without alteration. Hitchens, a former Lobby reporter, examines and mocks the flock mentality of most Westminster journalists, explain
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface: The Lost Frontier; Introduction: The Great Paradox; Part I: The New Permanent Government of Britain; 1 Guy Fawkes Gets a Blackberry; 2 The Power of Lunch; 3 Time for a Change; 4 Fear of Finding Something Worse; 5 The Great Landslide; Part II: The Left Escapes to the West; 6 Riding the Prague Tram; 7 A Fire Burning Under Water; Part III: Britain through the Looking Glass; 8 Racism, Sexism and Homophobia; 9 Sexism is Rational; 10 Equality or Tolerance; 11 The Fall of the Meritocracy; 12 'The age of the train'; 13 A Comfortable Hotel on the Road to Damascus
- Conclusion: The Broken CompassPostscript; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previous ed.: published as The broken compass. 2009.
- ISBN:
- 9786612875816
- 9786613272218
- 9781441123909
- 1441123903
- 9781441180209
- 1441180206
- 9781282875814
- 1282875817
- 9781283272216
- 1283272210
- 9781441183026
- 1441183027
- 9781441172662
- 1441172661
- OCLC:
- 682540810
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