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Author: Andrew Cook
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2008-04-07
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0752496212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reveals for the first time the true story of Maundy Gregory, the man responsible for 'An Insult to the Crown'.
Author: Tobias Harper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-02-13
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 019257809X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.
Author: Mark Garnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 1317860950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise, comprehensive and accessible, Exploring British Politics presents an insightful approach to British politics with a special emphasis on developments since the 2010 general election and the formation of Britain’s first coalition government since 1945.Designed to stimulate critical analysis and provoke lively debate, it provides new perspectives on two key themes – the health of British democracy and the transition from traditional models of government to more flexible forms of ‘governance’.
Author: Graham Hurley
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2010-04-08
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1409123502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGraham Hurley's acclaimed crime series takes a step into the dark side as DC Winter wonders whether crime might pay...From the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD. DC Winter, sacked from the police, has joined the city's premier drug baron, Bazza Mackenzie. Adrift in a world of easy money and brutally hard-won respect, Winter appears to be in his element. Worryingly so... DI Faraday, meanwhile, is deeply involved in two high-profile murders - but when one enquiry is taken out of his hands, he begins to uncover a web of evidence with profound implications for both investigations...and for the disgraced Paul Winter. The relationship between the two men has never been easy but now might be the time to bury their differences.
Author: Ana Tanasoca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-26
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1108566375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCitizenship is no longer an exclusive relationship. Many people today are citizens of multiple countries, whether by birth, naturalization, or even through monetary means, with schemes fast-tracking citizenship applications from foreigners making large investments in the state. Moral problems surround each of those ways of acquiring a second citizenship, while retaining one's original citizenship. Multiple citizenship can also have morally problematic consequences for the coherence of collective decisions, for the constitution of the demos, and for global inequality. The phenomenon of multiple citizenship and its ramifications remains understudied, despite its magnitude and political importance. In this innovative book, Ana Tanasoca explores these issues and shows how they could be avoided by unbundling the rights that currently come with citizenship and allocating them separately. It will appeal to scholars and students of normative political theory, citizenship, global justice, and migration in political science, law, and sociology.
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Issue of Privilege
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2010-03-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780215545046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncorporating HC 1040-i, ii and ii, session 2008-09. About the police search on 27 November 2009 of the Parliamentary offices of Damian Green MP, who had been leaked some restricted papers by a Home Office official
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2012-08-29
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780215047441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe evidence is still that honours are more likely to be awarded to civil servants and celebrities than to people who volunteer in their local community. The Committee heard that the process of awarding honours remains opaque, even to the Queen's representatives in the counties, the Lords Lieutenant. PASC calls for an increase in the proportion of people receiving honours for work in their local community, rather than to those who are awarded for their work as civil servants and in the wider public sector. This report sets out proposals to increase accountability and transparency and strengthening the link to the Monarch. These include: the introduction of an independent Honours Commission to consider nominations (a repeat recommendation from the last parliament); that the Prime Minister's "strategic direction" over the honours system be removed; a rebalancing of the proportion of honours awarded to civil servants and public sector workers, and volunteers in their local communities; that longer citations should be published, explaining the reason for awarding an honour; that the Lords Lieutenant should have an opportunity to consider and comment on all nominations for an honour within his or her lieutenancy; and that the Cabinet Office set out proposals for broadening the range of people who take up roles as independent members of the honours committees. The Committee also recommends, considering the decision to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood, that the Honours Forfeiture Committee be made independent and transparent, with clear and expanded criteria for forfeiture, chaired by an independent figure, such as a retired high court judge
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0753547325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes a good scandal? Money, politics and power, and a huge dose of media interest. Scandal reigns in the world of politics, celebrity, business, religion, royalty and art, and this book covers it all - from Watergate to Michael Jackson, Diana to Oscar Wilde. Distinguished writer Colin Wilson delves into the murky intrigues of British and American life to bring the most scandalous secrets to light. Containing brand new chapters on Michael Jackson, ENRON, the death of David Kelly, the Catholic Church sex scandals and the cash-for-honours scandal, and an updated chapter on OJ Simpson, here are the embarrassing true stories the rich and famous tried but failed to hide.
Author: Simon Lemieux
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 954
ISBN-13: 1398311103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPacked with insight into contemporary issues and analysis of the latest developments in UK and US Politics, including the 2019 UK General Election and 2020 US election, this textbook is specially designed to help your students perform to the best of their abilities in the AQA Politics Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams. This Student Textbook: - Strengthens your students' understanding of comparative politics through dedicated comparative politics chapters and synoptic links throughout - Builds your students' confidence by highlighting key terms and connections between different topics in the specification - Develops your students' skills of analysis and evaluation through activities, debates and exam-style questions - Provides answer guidance for exam-style questions online at www.hoddereducation.co.uk
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2006-07-13
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780215029799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Committee is conducting an inquiry into issues of propriety, transparency and accountability in the honours system in light of recent allegations that honours have been offered in return for loans to party funds and sponsorship of the Government's city academy schools and that loans have been made to political parties to avoid disclosure under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. This report follows on from previous Committee reports on the subject published in July 2004 (HCP 212-I, session 2003-04, ISBN 0215018370) and March 2006 (HCP 1020, session 2005-06, ISBN 0215028252). This report sets out the Committee's provisional findings, notwithstanding a Metropolitan Police investigation into the allegations, having taken evidence from the Cabinet Secretary, Metropolitan Police officers and members of the House of Lords Appointments Commission. Findings include that, to improve transparency in the appointments process, citations for all honours should be published, particularly for higher honours, and there should be a declaration signed by the candidate stating clearly any financial connection to a political party. It recommends that the role, powers and independence of the Appointments Commission should be defined in statute, and that the Commission should consult with political parties and others about the criteria it uses to assess the probity of nominees.
