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The Abolition of Britain is a conservative polemic against the changes in the United Kingdom since the mid-1960s. It contrasts the funerals of Winston Churchill (1965) and Diana, Princess of Wales (1997), using these two related but dissimilar events, three decades apart, to illustrate the enormous cultural changes that took place in the intervening period.
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.
Political Theory: An Introduction, first appeared as Political Ideas and Concepts: An Introduction (1994, Palgrave MacMillan) [2] [3] Politics (1997, Palgrave MacMillan) [4] Key Concepts in Politics (2000, Palgrave MacMillan) British Politics (2008, Palgrave MacMillan) Essentials of UK Politics (2008, Palgrave MacMillan)
The 8th and last edition (to date) of the Almanac, published in 2007, is 1,081 pages long. Despite its bulk, the book is known also as a guide to the nature of the United Kingdom in a broader sense than the merely political, and also for Byron Criddle's sometimes controversial and acerbic pen-portraits of politicians.
Alastair Brian Walden (8 July 1932 – 9 May 2019) was a British journalist and broadcaster who spent over a decade as a Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP). He was considered one of the finest political interviewers in the history of British broadcasting, tenacious and ruthless.
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 Free Economy and the Strong State (1988, 2nd edition 1994) Britain in Decline (1981, 4th Edition 1994) An Introduction to Modern Social and Political Thought (1981) The Conservative Nation (1974) Co-authored books: Ideas, Interests & Consequences (1989) The British Party System and Economic Policy 1945–1983 (with S. A. Walkland) (1984)
Walter Bagehot (/ ˈ b æ dʒ ə t / BAJ-ət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race.