LEADER 03379nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910785481903321 005 20230124190204.0 010 $a1-4411-2390-3 010 $a1-4411-8020-6 010 $a1-282-87581-7 010 $a1-283-27221-0 010 $a9786612875816 010 $a9786613272218 010 $a1-4411-8302-7 010 $a1-4411-7266-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056354 035 $a(EBL)601774 035 $a(OCoLC)682540810 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413454 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11259242 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413454 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10382445 035 $a(PQKB)11706853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC601774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL601774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427677 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327221 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6163725 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6161891 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056354 100 $a20100302d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Cameron delusion$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Hitchens 205 $aUpdated ed. 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 300 $aPrevious ed.: published as The broken compass. 2009. 311 $a1-4729-6715-1 311 $a1-4411-3505-7 327 $aContents; Preface: The Lost Frontier; Introduction: The Great Paradox; Part I: The New Permanent Government of Britain; 1 Guy Fawkes Gets a Blackberry; 2 The Power of Lunch; 3 Time for a Change; 4 Fear of Finding Something Worse; 5 The Great Landslide; Part II: The Left Escapes to the West; 6 Riding the Prague Tram; 7 A Fire Burning Under Water; Part III: Britain through the Looking Glass; 8 Racism, Sexism and Homophobia; 9 Sexism is Rational; 10 Equality or Tolerance; 11 The Fall of the Meritocracy; 12 'The age of the train'; 13 A Comfortable Hotel on the Road to Damascus 327 $aConclusion: The Broken CompassPostscript; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aThe struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how and why British politics has sunk to this dreary level - the takeover of the parties and the media by conventional left-wing dogmas which then call themselves 'the centre ground'. The Tory party under David Cameron has become a pale-blue twin of New Labour, offering change without alteration. Hitchens, a former Lobby reporter, examines and mocks the flock mentality of most Westminster journalists, explain 606 $aPolitical culture$zGreat Britain 606 $aPolitical parties$zGreat Britain 606 $aRight and left (Political science) 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y2007- 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aPolitical parties 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) 676 $a320.94109051 700 $aHitchens$b Peter$f1951-$01543694 701 $aHitchens$b Peter$f1951-$01543694 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785481903321 996 $aThe Cameron delusion$93854761 997 $aUNINA