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The Hutton Inquiry and Its Impact In the early hours of 29 May 2003 defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan told the Today programme of allegations that 10 Downing Street, seeking the previous autumn to justify the imminent war in Iraq to an unconvinced public, had exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Seven weeks later the body of weapons inspector David Kelly - 'our source' - was discovered in a wood in Oxfordshire, and a political storm of ferocious intensity broke over the heads of the government, the Civil Service, the media and the intelligence services. This book features much of the The Guardian's coverage of Lord Hutton's inquiry into the circumstances of David Kelly's death. The paper's coverage was most comprehensive, with its reporters and analysts providing unrivalled coverage. Here, that team gives their account of one of the most compelling pieces of political theatre of modern times.
Demented (hardback) Jacky Fleming is best remembered as architect of the National Health Service, and for her contribution to freestyle swimming.
Abandoned by wolves at an early age she was raised by feral intellectuals just down the road from Hampstead.
She has only ever experienced the world like someone who has just woken up out of a long trance.
This demented cartoon narrative is intended for the middle-aged but immature woman and her bewildered partner
- or anyone obsessed with looking on the Internet at properties for sale in sunny countries.
Love All the People; Letters, Lyrics, Routines 'I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out'Bill Hicks could have been on all the chat shows. He could have had his own show on prime time. He could have got rich and fat and frightened. But Hicks didn't go the easy way. He turned down the offers Satan made him. Instead he figured out his best shot at truth and then he said it. He attacked the lies that justified and prettified the carnage of the First Gulf War. He attacked the easy surrender of art to commerce, the demeaning cynicism of the marketing culture and the preposterous power of the mainstream media to confuse and corrupt. This is the first collection of all his stand-up routines, with extracts from his diaries, notebooks, letters and final writings. It reveals Hicks' work as both brilliant conventional stand-up comedy and as more interesting and dangerous: an invitation to a life lived without fear.
How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (hardback) In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next 25 years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition was to reassert "Victorian values". In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the 20th century to a premature close. What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo. Modernity was challenged by a gruesome alliance of pre-modernists and post-modernists, medieval theocrats and New Age mystics. It was as if the Enlightenment had never happened.Francis Wheen, winner of the George Orwell prize, evokes the key personalities of the post-political era - including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama Bin-Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer - while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. From UFO scares to dotcom mania, his impassioned polemic describes a period in the world's history when everything began to stop making sense.
Star of the Sea Winter 1847, the Star of the Sea sets sail from Ireland for New York. Among the refugees are a maidservant, bankrupt Lord Merridith, an aspiring novelist and a maker of revolutionary ballads. Each is connected more deeply than they know. But a killer is stalking the decks, hungry for vengeance.
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (hardback) Explores the connection between the United States eugenics program of the the early twentieth-century and the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, citing proof that American scientists attempted to create a master race.
Fortunate Son: George W. Bush - The Early Years
The book they tried to ban! On first publication this definitive biography by the late James Hatfield was withdrawn, sued & suppressed, but emerged triumphant and made the New York Times bestseller list. Hatfield tells us the truth about Bush's early years - how he got into Yale University on the strength of his name, dodged the draft, lost a lot of other people's money in the Texas oil marked and was investigated for insider trading. Holding a mirror up to Dubya's real political agenda, this is the privileged life of special favours, cut corners and blurry values of the unelected leader of the world's largest superpower.
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality This text examines the forces that erode respect in modern society. Respect can be gained by attaining success, through financial independence and by helping others. But, it argues, many who are not able to achieve the demands of contemporary meritocracy lose the esteem they should have.
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