 | The Total Politics Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2010-2011
The Total Politics Guide 2010-2011 provides the most definitive guide to political blogging in the UK today.
What's more, the 2010-2011 Guide includes comprehensive insider analysis from some of the UK's leading bloggers and commentators; charting the successes of the blogosphere over the past year and, crucially, defining the incredible challenges that lie ahead.
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 | Six: A History of Britian's Secret Intelligence Service
Part 1: Murder and Mayhem 1909 -1939
Thw first part of this epic, unauthorised history of Britain's external intelligence community begins with the creation of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909, charged with controlling intelligence within Britain and overseas, and establishing through spies the strength of the Imperial German army and navy. This first part of SIX takes us up to the eve of the conflict, using hundreds of previously unreleased files and interviews with key players to show how one of the world's most secretive of secret agencies originated and developed into something like the MI6 we know today. |
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 | Campaign 2010: The Making of the Prime Minister
In the run-up to the general election of May 2010 it was universally acknowledged that whatever the outcome, this was a vote which would start a fresh chapter in British political history, one to rival 1945, 1979 and 1997. But no one anticipated just how fresh that chapter would be. Twists and turns made it an election like no other. |
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 | Talking to A Brick Wall
With a stellar cast, including Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelson, John Smith, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Talking to A Brick Wall reviews the New Labour years from the voter's point of view. It tracks the ups and downs of the Blair/Brown era as seen from beyond Westminster, showing how closely political reputation correlates with voter connection. |
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 | What did the Baby Boomers ever do for us?
While the philosophy of the sixties seemed progressive at the time, the baby boomers we remember are not the political reformers, but the millionaires. In WHAT DID THE BABY BOOMERS EVER DO FOR US? Francis Beckett argues that the children of the '60s betrayed the generations that came before and after, and that the true legacy of the swinging decade is |
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 | From Thatcher to Cameron
A unique and illuminating series of lectures given between 1997 and 2009, which reveal the journey of Conservative thinking from the landslide 1997 election defeat to present-day Compassionate Conservatism. |
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 | Speaking to Lead
From the very basics - how to lay out an easily navigable manuscript to work from, getting the right words in the right order, researching your audience and getting your body language right - to starting a speech, pacing it correctly and bringing the audience to a point of collective agreement, Speaking to Lead teaches the importance and use of speech as action: a tool to persuade an audience and to solve problems. |
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 | Labour Pains
Labour Pains is Labour stalwart and former Cabinet insider Peter Kilfoyle's perspective on the Blair-Brown era, from the failure of the 1992 election campaign to the mediocrity of the current government. It documents the meteoric rise of the dynamic duo between 1983 and 1992, and their early pact with that modern day Mephistopheles, Peter Mandelson. Irreverent, witty and thoughtful, this insider's account of our political age is replete with anecdotes, some none too flattering, and reflections on the two men who, Kilfoyle believes, have ruined his beloved Labour. |
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 | Fighting Bull
This is the candid and colourful life story by a fascinating and controversial character, Nigel Farage. It also shows that one fearless, determined individual can still make a difference. |
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 | So You Want to be A Politician
This is a must-read for any first-time candidate - or, indeed, anyone looking to put together and run an effective political campaign of any kind. This accessible, practical guide examines the qualities required of today's politicians and offers common-sense advice for almost every aspect of campaigning |
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 | Seeking Gaddafi
Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi is one of the most divisive figures in modern global relations. The self proclaimed ideological leader of Arab nationalism and proponent of Islamic Socialism, Gaddafi has, for four decades, been absolute ruler of Libya, a country where basic civil liberties are virtually nonexistent and opposition not tolerated. |
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 | Inside Out
This is the ultimate insider exposé: a no-holds-barred account of the spectacular decline of the most effective party political machine of modern times and an intimate and often shocking viewpoint onto the flawed personalities at the chaotic heart of government, including the country's two most recent Prime Ministers. |
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 | British Electoral Facts
This unique and authoritative guide to more than 170 years of political history reflects the rapid and continuing change in the electoral landscape of the United Kingdom. |
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 | Delane's War
The British Government sends an ill-prepared, poorly equipped army to war in a foreign land. This isn't Afghanistan today, but the Crimea 150 years ago.
Delane's War is the story of how John Delane, editor of The Times, brought about the resignation of the entire cabinet of the British Government over its conduct of the Crimean War. In the aftermath Britain came close to revolution.
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 | The Art of Consultation
Over ten thousand public servants in the UK - and many others in the private and voluntary sectors - engage in formal consultations, and it's time their efforts were celebrated, and their challenges properly addressed. This unique book is a practical guide to the effective implementation of consultation, and covers all the essential, up-to-date techniques to allow you to put in train consultations of the highest standard.
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 | The Yes Minister Miscellany
A collection of the funniest bits from the timeless series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister in one brilliant volume. Yes Minister, together with its sequel Yes Prime Minister, is one of the most popular and critically successful British sit-coms of all time, largely due to its fascinatingly accurate observations of the sparring between Paul Eddington's naive minister, Jim Hacker, and Nigel Hawthorne's infernally cunning permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby. |
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 | Trust - How we Lost it and How to get it Back
Ten years into the new millennium, and the high hopes are gone. The economy is in tatters, politicians are reviled; corporate business, the police, social workers, the health and education systems, media, science and religion - all have undergone an unprecedented loss of public confidence. In this first serious response to the era of post financial and political meltdown, best-selling author and social and political commentator, Anthony Seldon lays out a blueprint for regaining trust within the national life. |
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 | Total Politics Guide to the 2010 General Election
Here, in one volume, is everything you need to make up your mind in the 2010 general election.
This is a unique guide to the state of the parties, policies and issues in the run-up to polling, including a unique guide to the key marginal constituencies that will make up the battleground and expert predictions from political pundits.
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 | Screwing Up - How one MP Survived Politics,
Scandal and Turning Forty
An MP's open and honest account of stress, depression and what it's like to be caught in the eye of a scandal. Mark Oaten hit the headlines in January 2006 when, shortly after announcing he was withdrawing from the race to succeed Charles Kennedy as leader of the LibDems, he was caught up in the biggest political scandal of the year, when the News of the World told the world he had been sleeping with a rent boy. His world collapsed.
This is not a political memoir, it's the deeply touching and human story of a man at his wits' end. And above all it's the story of a man trying to cope with the onset of middle age.
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 | Blueprint - The Policies, Principles, and Personalities of the New Conservative Government
This book is a prequel to the anticipated Conservative victory in the general election expected in May 2010. It draws on Lionel Zetter's unrivalled experience as an author, political consultant, and Conservative Party activist of 30 years standing. It provides a unmatched guide to declared party policy whilst also looking at the unspoken policies the party will have to implement if elected. What's more it provides biographies on the leading lights in the conservatives, from shadow ministers to back-bench MPs and from PPCs to key opinion formers and back room fixers, this book is a must have for anyone who wants to know what a Cameron government will look like. |
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 | Dilly - The Man Who Broke Enigmas
Dilly is the little known story of the man who did more than anyone else to break the German Enigma code, an event key to the allies' ultimate victory in the Second World War. Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known as Dilly, was Britain's leading wartime codebreaker, a famously eccentric and temperamental genius who cracked German ciphers in both wars.
Mavis Batey, one of Dilly's 'girls', paints a compelling portrait of a great British eccentric and provides a fascinating and detailed behind-the-scenes look into codebreaking and the hidden side of war. |
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 | The Total Politics Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2009-2010
Published on: 1st October 2009
Since the last edition of the Total Politics Guide, political blogging in the UK has grown immeasurably in terms of both status and influence; with many bloggers becoming media personalities in their own right. From the Damian McBride email scandal to MP's expenses, and from the recession to Afghanistan, the mainstream media has increasingly followed the agenda set by political bloggers.
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 | Guide To Online Blogging
In the fast paced world of political blogging the Total Politics Guide lets you know what's hot and what's not, detailing the top 200 blogs in the country, and crucially the top blogs by category: Left wing, Right wing, Liberal Democrat, Non-Aligned, MPs, Media, Councillors, Scottish, SNP, Welsh, Plaid Cymru, Irish, and Green. |
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 | Dirty Politics, Dirty Times
New and updated 3rd edition
A newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer’s personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated in a libel action against The Times newspaper.
The book reveals the dirty tricks that were used to destabilise the Conservative Party, including the newspaper's alleged bribery of US government officials, and the abuse of parliamentary privileges by New Labour MPs. |
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