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    Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics
    Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics
    Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics
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    Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics

    By David Howell

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    Look Where We're Going is a book of revelation and revolution. Written by someone who has been at the centre of British government and international affairs for half a century, it looks afresh at the ideas, hopes, lessons and largely unintended consequences of successive generations of political leaders; it shows us how to Look Where We're Going.
    Based on deep personal experience – the author is one of the few left who served in Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinet of just over forty years ago – Howell gives us a new picture of the dramas deep inside government and how yesterday's clashes of ideology and personality have led to today's unanticipated turmoil. Old assumptions are torn apart and accepted versions of what occurred are unravelled.
    Howell shows how technology has made much of our conventional political vocabulary obsolete, how we now need quite different types of leadership serving new priorities and how, while we wrestle with the issues just before our eyes, much bigger forces are at work which are re-shaping our lives and our future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnicorn
    Release dateSep 19, 2019
    ISBN9781912690855
    Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics
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    David Howell

    David Howell has been at the centre of government and the political debate for more than half a century. He is the only person to have served in the three administrations of Heath, Thatcher and Cameron. He is also the only minister to have ‘come back’ after a 27-year break. Between spells in government, he has filled numerous other roles in journalism, banking and industry. He is currently President of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Chairman of the Windsor Energy Group and most recently, Chairman of the House of Lords Committee for International Relations. Lord Howell has a track record in forecasting developments long in advance and pioneering thinking on the major issues of our times. His qualifications are completely unique, enabling him to weaving together the ideas, hopes, lessons and consequences of the past fifty years and explaining where they are now leading the British nation.

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