Sources Close to the Prime Minister
Author | : Michael Cockerell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Government and the press |
ISBN | : 9780033348423 |
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Author | : Michael Cockerell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Government and the press |
ISBN | : 9780033348423 |
Author | : Graham P. Thomas |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Cabinet officers |
ISBN | : 9780719039515 |
This comprehensive account of a crucial but rather neglected aspect of British government examines the role and significance of the prime minister and cabinet today.
Author | : Simon James |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351001469 |
Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Simon James’s comprehensible and accessible text provides an excellent insight into the work of the Prime Minister and Cabinet government. It draws on the wealth of new material that has become available in recent years to shed light on the mechanisms and processes of the Cabinet system in Britain, focusing on the post-1979 period. Its coverage includes: ministers and their departments; collective decision-making; the role of the Prime Minister; the strengths and weaknesses of the Cabinet system; and the future of the Cabinet system. Prime Minister and Cabinet Government will give both A-level students and undergraduates a clear understanding of the realities of this central aspect of British politics.
Author | : Clive Whichelow |
Publisher | : Piatkus |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2014-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0349404631 |
Over last thirty years, new technology, fashion, and social set-ups have spawned new cliches galore. Everything on the Internet is available at the 'click of a mouse', TV presenters ask the audience to 'give it up' when they want them to applaud, call centres tell us 'we value your call' even though 'all our operators are busy'. And if you're 'gobsmacked' by all this you may be told to 'get a life', 'chill out' or 'whatever'. It's Not Rocket Science sifts through all aspects of modern life to find the most prevalent, ubiquitous and downright irritating cliches of our age. This high-octane, caffeine-fuelled, dictionary of cliches highlights the freshly-hackneyed phrases we're being subjected to 24/7. So how good is that? And what's not to like?
Author | : Birgit Bujard |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-07-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319899538 |
This book examines the UK prime minister’s political leadership in the domestic executive. By offering a comparative study of the political leadership of James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair with regard to European monetary policy, it challenges the thesis that British prime ministers today have more power, resources and autonomy than their predecessors, giving them a greater capacity to act. Taking key European monetary policy decisions by the British government between 1976 and 2007 as empirical cases, the book assesses the extent to which the political leadership of each prime minister was affected by the cabinet, the parliamentary party as well as the media, and the extent to which he or she was able to manage these factors. It becomes clear from this analysis that prime ministerial predominance is not as frequent as suggested, while collective leadership does not represent a return to cabinet government. Moreover, particularly the party in government affects the prime minister’s leadership by shaping his or her options on appointments (and therefore the composition of the core executive), and through its behaviour in parliament, e.g. through rebellions or the threat of them.
Author | : Anthony King |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822306344 |
The British prime minister is universally acknowledged to be the most powerful single individual in the British system of government, but very little is known about what goes on behind the closed door at #10 Downing Street. As Anthony King points out, there are few articles—let alone books—on the prime ministership available to students of British politics either in the UK or the US. As the preface to the American edition states, while the British prime minister and the American president "do resemble each other in some ways, it is important right at the start to recognize the profound differences between them."
Author | : Peter Hennessy |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2001-10-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312293130 |
He illuminates, often for the first time, precise Prime Ministerial attitudes toward, and authority over, nuclear weapons policy, the planning and waging of war, and the secret services, as well as dealing with governmental overload, the Suez crisis, and the "Soviet threat." He concludes with a controversial assessment of the relative performance of each Prime Minister since 1945 and a new specification for the premiership as it meets its fourth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Len Masterman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134955049 |
An invaluable guide both for specialists in media and communication studies and all teachers who wish to use newspapers and TV in their teaching.
Author | : Jonathan Lynn |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 144641650X |
'Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction... at its frequent best Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times 'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy' - Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP 'Yes Prime Minister... is not only a continuing marvel of editing by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a collector's must' - John Coldstream in the Daily Telegraph 'Yes Prime Minister is a comedy in a class of its own' - Celia Brayfield in The Times
Author | : Graham McCann |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1781313229 |
A behind-the-scenes history of one of the most successful and admired British sitcoms of the 1980s. In 1977 the BBC commissioned a new satirical sitcom set in Whitehall. Production of its first series was stalled, however, by the death throes of Jim Callaghan’s Labour government and the ‘Winter of Discontent’; Auntie being unwilling to broadcast such an overtly political comedy until after the general election of 1979. That Yes Minister should have been delayed by the very events that helped bring Margaret Thatcher to power is, perhaps, fitting. Over three series from 1980—and two more as Yes, Prime Minister until 1988—the show mercilessly lampooned the vanity, self-interest and incompetence of our so-called public servants, making its hapless minister Jim Hacker and his scheming Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey two of the most memorable characters British comedy has ever produced. The new prime minister professed it her favourite television programme—a ‘textbook’ on the State in inaction—and millions of British viewers agreed. In the years since Yes Minister has become a national treasure: Sir Humphrey’s slippery circumlocutions have entered the lexicon, regularly quoted by political commentators, and the series’ cynical vision of government seems as credible now as it did thirty years ago. Much of this success can be credited to its writers, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, who drew on their contacts in Westminster to rework genuine political folly as situation comedy. Storylines that seemed absurd to the public were often rooted in actual events—so much so that they occasionally attracted the scrutiny of Whitehall mandarins. In A Very Courageous Decision acclaimed entertainment historian Graham McCann goes in search of the real political fiascos that inspired Yes Minister. Drawing on fresh interviews with cast, crew, politicians and admirers, he reveals how a subversive satire captured the mood of its time to become one of the most cherished sitcoms of Thatcher’s Britain.