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  • The Banned List

    de John Rentoul ...
    A manifesto for clear writing and an indictment of the damage done to the English language by the use of jargonJohn Rentoul examines how poor writing and a reliance on jargon have damaged our ability to communicate with each other and makes the case for the use of clear English. He addresses the verbification of nouns, the use of waffle to pad out a simple statement, and the importing of business ... Leer más

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  • Listellany

    A Miscellany of Very British Top Tens, From Politics to Pop

    de John Rentoul ...
    Delightfully nerdy and geeky, perfect water cooler fodder that's guaranteed to generate discussion. This quirky and unusual book of top 10's covers politics, language, history, pop culture and more - with a distinctive British slant.This is NOT a fact-based compendium. It's purely opinion – the opinions of John Rentoul, his readers—and, yes, Twitter. Every week in the Independent on Sunday, John ... Leer más

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  • Questions to Which the Answer is "No!"

    de John Rentoul ...
    A celebration of the age-old tactic beloved by journalists of creating a sensational story out of nothing, this book is a collection of articles that caught the world's attention just from the headline aloneHonoring the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline, John Rentoul brings together for the first time the winning entries from his ... Leer más

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  • Tony Blair

    Prime Minister

    de John Rentoul ...
    Last updated in 2001, John Rentoul's acclaimed Tony Blair: Prime Minister returns with an extensive new assessment of Blair's premiership after '9/11' - from the Iraq war and relations with Gordon Brown to his departure from Downing Street and political afterlife.'Well written, thoroughly researched and informed by the balanced and subtle insights of a skilled journalist... Especially good on the ... Leer más

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  • Heroes or Villains?

    The Blair Government Reconsidered

    Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite' becoming an insult. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader in 2015 seemed to be, if not an equal, at least an opposite reaction to ... Leer más

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  • What Just Happened?!

    Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

    de Marina Hyde ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNow includes ELEVEN new columns and a whole THREE new prime ministers.**Marina Hyde's new book, What a Time to be Alive! is available for pre-order now**Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era.'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.'PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'Th... ... Leer más

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  • The Prime Ministers We Never Had

    Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

    BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother Ed? Would Ed have become prime minister if it were not for David? How close did Jeremy Corbyn come to being prime minister? In this piercing and original ... Leer más

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  • A Farther Shore

    Ireland's Long Road to Peace

    de Gerry Adams ...
    He’s been imprisoned, shot at, denounced, shunned, and banned, yet Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams remains resolute in his belief that peace is the only viable option for the Irish people. Adams led the oldest revolutionary movement in Ireland on an extraordinary journey from armed insurrection to active participation in government. Now he tells the story of the tumultuous series of events that ... Leer más

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  • Conduct Unbecoming – A Memoir by Desmond O'Malley

    The Story of One of Ireland's Most Extraordinary and Influential Politicians

    Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland's most outspoken and respected public figures, Desmond O'Malley. Born in Limerick in 1939, Desmond O'Malley went on to become the youngest Minister for Justice in Irish history and the founder of the Progressive Democrats, a hugely influential party in Irish politics. In this groundbreaking memoir, O'Malley recounts in funny, ... Leer más

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  • Brown at 10

    GORDON BROWN's three years in power were among the most turbulent in Downing Street's post-war history. Brown at 10 tells the compelling story of his hubris and downfall, and with it, the final demise of the New Labour project. Containing an extraordinary breadth of previously unpublished material, Brown at 10 is a frank, penetrating portrait of a remarkable era, written by one of Britain's ... Leer más

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  • John Bercow

    Call to Order

    Divisive, controversial, atypical - few others embody the fraught nature of British politics today quite like John Bercow. A man who is revered by his one-time political opponents and chastised by his former bedfellows. A politician who has traversed the deep chasm between the Conservative right and the liberal left. A Speaker some see as a great moderniser and others, a constitutional arsonist ... Leer más

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  • The Good Friday Agreement

    In April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the bloodshed that had engulfed Northern Ireland for thirty years. It was lauded worldwide as an example of an iconic peace process to which other divided societies should aspire.Today, the region has avoided returning to the bloodshed of the Troubles, but the peace that exists is deeply troubled and far from stable. The botched Parliament ... Leer más

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