More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007
Publication details: United Kingdom; Cornerstone; 2008Description: 400 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780099517054
- 941.08 BEN
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Biography | 941.08 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC009203 | |||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore In Store | 941.08 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | donated to the faislabad festival 2019 | PKLC008641 |
When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and political issues to wide audiences. And throughout, as ever, he has been keeping his diaries.Commenting on the demise of the New Labour project from the re-election of Tony Blair in 2001 to the ultimate foreign policy disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, he gives other prescient accounts of the government's by-passing of Cabinet, parliament and the party, of the 'war on terror', the debate about Islam, globalisation and the changes in British society. Although he is no longer in power or in parliament, Tony Benn remains a figure of enormous respect whose direct views, honestly expressed, have often awakened the national conscience. His latest Diaries""", human and challenging in turn, are an enthralling read.
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