The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018 write by Anthony Seldon. This book was released on 2016-12-08. The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its creation in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, the Cabinet Office has retained a uniquely central place in the ever-changing political landscape of the last century. While the revolving door of 10 Downing Street admits and ejects its inhabitants every few years, the Cabinet Office remains a constant, supporting and guiding successive Prime Ministers and their governments, regardless of their political leanings, all the while keeping the British state safe, stable and secure. It has been at the centre of everything – wars, intelligence briefings, spy scandals, disputed elections, political crises – and its eleven Cabinet Secretaries, ever at the right hand of their political masters, have borne witness to them all. The true 'men of secrets', these individuals are granted access to the meetings that determine the course of history, trusted with the most classified information the state possesses. Written with unparalleled access to documents and personnel by acclaimed political historian, commentator and biographer Anthony Seldon, this lavishly illustrated history is the definitive inside account of what has really gone on in the last 100 years of British politics.
The Cabinet Office, 1916-2016
The Cabinet Office, 1916-2016 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cabinet Office, 1916-2016 write by Anthony Seldon. This book was released on 2016. The Cabinet Office, 1916-2016 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first, definitive history of one of Britain's most important political institutions.
Goodbye to the Working Class
Goodbye to the Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goodbye to the Working Class write by Reg Race. This book was released on 2021-10-01. Goodbye to the Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After 1979, Labour lost eight of the next eleven general elections. Working-class voters deserted, starting in 1970 when widespread abstention began, and the Conservatives won a majority of the working-class vote in 2019. Brexit was a consequence, and not the cause, of these massive changes.The number of manual workers, Labour's heartland vote, has collapsed and Britain is now a nation where the biggest occupational groups are shopworkers, education and NHS staff. Demographics have challenged Labour's ability to win.But that's not all. Labour's Parliamentary Party is now overwhelmingly middle class, and Labour has left the working class as the working class has left Labour. It is now a Party of Councillors and Special Advisers, with a membership dominated by the public sector middle class. Labour has been the author of its own troubles too. It failed to adapt to change in the 1970s and 80s, attacked the low paid and appeased the powerful, and at a local level is disorganised and sometimes sleazy. Its failures are structural. There is no strategic plan, sectarianism is rife, it has regular financial crises, fragile or unelectable leaders are appointed, and disastrous rule changes are made in an age when social media and the internet can disrupt politics on a daily basis. Power has been turned upside down as a consequence.Political parties matter. Badly organised, ineffective leaderships create policy failures in government, and Labour has failed to ensure a supply of its own working-class or capable candidates too. 'Goodbye to the Working Class' explains why and how this happened. It is a human story of significant consequence for our politics.
The Impossible Office?
The Impossible Office? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impossible Office? write by Anthony Seldon. This book was released on 2024-03-14. The Impossible Office? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10, explores the lives and careers, crises and scandals, and successes and failures of our great Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, up to the recent churn of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Seldon discusses which of our PMs have been most effective and why, as well as probing the changing relationship between the Monarchy and the Prime Minister in intimate detail. A celebration of the humanity, frailty, work and achievements of 57 remarkable individuals who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.
Public Schools and the Second World War
Public Schools and the Second World War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Schools and the Second World War write by Anthony Seldon. This book was released on 2020-09-30. Public Schools and the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following on from Public Schools and the Great War, Sir Anthony Seldon and David Walsh now examine those same schools in the Second World War. Privileged conservative traditions of private schools were challenged in the inter-war years by the changing social and political landscape, including a greater role for the alumni of girls’ public schools. What was that public school spirit in 1939 and how did it and its products cope with, and contribute to, the requirements of a modern global conflict both physically and intellectually? The book answers these questions by, for example, examining the public schools’ role in the development and operations of the RAF in unconventional warfare and code-breaking. At home there was bombing, evacuation and the threat of invasion. Finally, the authors study how public schools shaped the way the war was interpreted culturally and how they responded to victory in 1945 and hopes of a new social order. This fascinating book draws widely on primary source material and personal accounts of inspiring courage and endurance.
