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Ruling Britannia: Failure and Future of British Democracy

1 review
Andrew Marr

Penguin Books Ltd, 1996

A worrying analysis of Britain today
Reviewed by PETER UNWIN in International Relations, Volume XIII, No 1, April 1996 This is an important book. Behind a wilfully silly and facetious style that seems designed to irritate and interrupt, Andrew Marr, political columnist of The Independent, has given us a serious and worrying analysis of the state of politics and government in Britain today. He brings out three topical themes in ...

A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr

Macmillan UK, 2008

"A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and ...

Born in the Darkest Time of Year: Stories for the Season of the Christ Child
Andrew Marr

iUniverse, Inc., 2004

At Christmas anything can happen: Scott creates a crisis for his family when the only thing he wants for Christmas is a unicorn. While spending Christmas in England, John meets a family from Cromwell's time. A ghost appears to Rose Lee just before Christmas and desperately tries to get her attention. Christopher goes out to his back yard to meet space aliens who have just landed on Christmas Eve. Martha searches her house for a treasure that a ...

Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and René Girard
Andrew Marr

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

A sixth-century abbot who wrote a practical rule for his community and a twentieth-century thinker who has roamed through literature, cultural anthropology, and religious thought?what would these two men have in common to generate a conversation between them? The religious study Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and René Girard combines their insights on how to understand and overcome violence in the world today. In his ...

Point of Departure (Classics of Reportage S.)

1 review
James Cameron

Granta UK, 2007

A dashing, slashing, slapdash foreign correspondent
I can't forget 1967; it was one of the great years. I'm rereading a powerful and valuable book written in 1967, so I did a dogpile search for "James Cameron + Point of Departure" and got a website with a Studs Terkel interview in which he said this: "Have I mentioned the name of James Cameron? Some people ask me who is the writer I most admire. I can tell you the journalist I most admire. He ...

My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism

2 reviews
Andrew Marr

Macmillan UK, 2005

Should be required reading
Andrew Marr is one of the foremost political journalists of the modern age and in his book "My Trade - A Short History of British Journalism" he covers in a series of what are really essays the development of journalism in Britain. Where this book comes into it's own is the way in which Marr uses his knowledge and experience as a political journalist to explain the love/hate relationship ...

Celestial Secrets: The Hidden History of the Fatima Incident

6 reviews
Joaquim Fernandes, Fina D'Armada

Anomalist Books, 2007

The First Scrutiny
This book truly is the first "scrutiny" of Fatima, and its time is overdue for "scrutiny" of such events is a condition demanded by the Roman Catholic Church. and was not done in the case of Fatima. And may I be perfectly frank in stating that I see this Fatima episode far more simplistically than the authors. I see it in part as a case of "peasant cunning" that later evolved under ...