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The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way is the fourth book by British writer Peter Hitchens, published in May 2009.Polemical and partly autobiographical, the book contends that the British political right and left no longer hold firm, adversarial beliefs, but vie for position in the centre, while at the same time overseeing a general decline in British society.
The political culture of the United Kingdom was described by the political scientists Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba (1963) as a deferential civic culture. In the United Kingdom , factors such as class and regionalism [ 1 ] and the nation's history such as the legacy of the British Empire impact on political culture .
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class; Churchill: Walking with Destiny; The Civic Culture; Common Sense (Benn and Hood book) Comrade Corbyn; Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy; Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics; Crippled; Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. [1] [2] British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution) divided hierarchically within a system that involved the hereditary transmission of ...
His book, Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain, was long-listed for the 2015 Orwell Prize. [4] In 2023, his book Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics was listed by the Financial Times as one of its politics books of the year. [67]
The existence of the Labour Party on the left-wing of British politics led to a slow waning of energy from the Liberal Party, which has consequently assumed third place in national politics. After performing poorly at the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Liberal Party was superseded by the Labour Party as being the party of the left.
British national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, [2] of the British people. [3] [4] It comprises the claimed qualities that bind and distinguish the British people and form the basis of their unity and identity, [5] and the ...
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