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Newest Review: ... ridiculous politically correct world that we live in. They actually run my local authority which has seen huge rises in spending with zero improvements in service. The cost of running the council itself has doubled, as allowances and committee meetings have rocketed. They love a committee. The chance to vote on putting road humps and double yellow lines on an estate that doesn't want ... more

... them is a favourite past time of the locally active Liberal. It is amazing how you always get their "regular" Focus newsletter in April every year, but never at any other time! And their total failure to improve recycling locally,...more

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Politics Books in general: Time to have your democratic say ... if it's worth the e ... (775 words)
by - written on 16/04/03 (Very useful, 36 readings)
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It is nearly local election time again. Despite people dying to give us the right, it is anticipated that as many as 75% of those eligible to vote will fail to do so. So, what is on offer from the parties locally in 2003? It is likely that you have a Labour candidate. Labour is the party of local government. They have dominated urban councils for 20 years. As well as the wilder side of politics in the eighties (Derek Hatton in Liverpool and Ken Livingstone in London), you have probably just experienced a massive rise in your council tax. Strangely, the biggest rises tend to be in southern areas where there are fewer labour councils, but even in ... Read the complete review

Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of co ... (2284 words)
by - written on 17/05/02 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Michael Cox (ed) - Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia Pinter 1998, pp294, £16.99 This review took a long time to write so please read it!! Despite some of the dubious formulations in its title, this book is an excellent study of the theoreticians responsible for analysing the growth and decline of the USSR alongside the birth of the 'new' Russia. The question that Michael Cox and other authors attempt to answer is a simple, yet damning one. Why is it that Sovietologists - from neo-conservative to Trotskyite - by and large failed to foresee the collapse of the Soviet Union in ... Read the complete review

Politics Books in general: Murder by Media (1796 words)
by - written on 14/07/00 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (Pantheon Books, 1988) I remember when I was a kid that I thought the Vietnam war was very simple: one side, the Vietnamese, were in the right, the other, the Americans, in the wrong. As I grew up, my views became more "balanced" without my learning much more about the war: reading this book has completed my journey back to my original position. If one can argue that a good way to defend a people's democratic freedoms is to slaughter the people in question, the Americans were defending the democratic freedoms of the Vietnamese. They were also, and ... Read the complete review