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  • Versace’s Medusa: Andrew Cunanan

    by C. T. Patrick Diamond ...
    The world's most successful gays are found in California and Florida, as are its most prolific serial killers. This literary thriller takes the form of a memoir in which Gianni Versace's Great Gatsby life story is cut short by Andrew Cunanan as in a scene out of Cruising. The cast includes the exotic poster boy killer with a series of faces, a pair of handsome, star-crossed former lovers, two ... Read more

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  • Equinox: Serial Killer

    by C. T. Patrick Diamond ...
    In this literary thriller, Tim Roper and Paul Morel each become a character in the other's narrative: the watcher being watched. Their experiences of childhood abuse and murder are superimposed, one upon the other, to produce a double vision of evil.Tim tells of growing up in the "Deep North" of Australia as an only child after World War II. Driven to become a serial killer, he marks the Equinox ... Read more

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  • British Conservative Leaders

    by Charles Clarke, Toby S. James, Tim Bale, Patrick Diamond ...
    As the party that has held power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played a crucial role in the shaping of British society. And yet the leaders who have stood at its helm – from Sir Robert Peel to Rishi Sunak, via Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher – have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success, particularly latterly, when the short but destructive ... Read more

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  • New Labour's Old Roots

    Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History: Second Edition

    by Patrick Diamond ...
    The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air — it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as an antidote to that amnesia. It is an 'all star cast' from R.H. Tawney, Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony ... Read more

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  • Labour's Civil Wars

    How Infighting has Kept the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done About It)

    by Patrick Diamond, Giles Radice ...
    A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party’s perpetual internal divisions.The biblical adage that “if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand” remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. When a party is riven with division, the public does not know what it stands for. Though both major UK parties have been ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Exploring British Politics

    by Mark Garnett, Peter Dorey, Patrick Diamond ...
    Exploring British Politics is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the subject. Fully updated and revised, the new edition covers developments since 2016 in the role of the executive, parliament, the civil service, political parties, general elections, party ideology, and membership, as well as examining turmoil and leadership battles within the Labour and Conservative parties, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019

    Forward March Halted?

    by Patrick Diamond ...
    This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party’s years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour’s sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall) of the governments ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Can Labour Win?

    The Hard Road to Power

    by Patrick Diamond, Giles Radice ...
    After its disastrous defeat in 2015, Labour is at grave risk of throwing away the 2020 general election. The party has to understand why it suffered such a devastating defeat and learn crucial lessons if it is to recover. The reasons appear obvious enough: the British public did not believe that Ed Miliband was a credible prime minister; people feared that a Labour government would plunge the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Endgame for the Centre Left?

    The Retreat of Social Democracy Across Europe

    by Patrick Diamond ...
    After a period of electoral dominance, centre-left parties in western Europe have suffered a dramatic erosion of support; the vote share enjoyed by social democrats is at its lowest ever level. Social democracy stands at a point of great promise, but also peril.This book explores these themes and argues that to write off centre-left politics now would be a great mistake. It counters the idea that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Social Reality of Europe After the Crisis

    Trends, Challenges and Responses

    by Patrick Diamond, Roger Liddle, Daniel Sage ...
    The economic crisis of recent years continues to have a profound effect on the lives of European citizens. Economically, politically and socially, it has led to fundamental change in many people's lives. In addition to creating new concerns, the crisis has simultaneously exacerbated existing ones, raising profound challenges to the sustainability and success of the European model. This book seeks ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe

    by Christopher Baker, Jon Lawrence, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Stefan Selke, Sarah Greenwood, Sabine Werth, Gabriella Elgenius, Paul Jones, John Morris, Patrick Diamond ...
    The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding needs, from basic items such as food to more complex means to move out of poverty.Bringing together ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The End of Whitehall?

    Government by Permanent Campaign

    by Patrick Diamond ...
    This Palgrave Policy Essential maps and assesses key changes in the Whitehall model over the last two decades. It argues that the traditional Whitehall model is being replaced by a system of ‘New Political Governance’ (NPG) centred on politicised campaigning; the growth of political advisory staff relative to the permanent civil service; the personalisation of bureaucratic appointments; and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD