In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands. Here he came across the ruins of a community & isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters of the people who took the train West in the early 20th century in search of new lives. This is their story. ...

Over the years, New Labour has made us wade through a quagmire of petty rules, health & safety lunacies, madcap laws & nitpicking regulations. This book exposes the ' Bad Laws', those irritating laws, regulations & Whitehall idiocies that make life in Britain the day-to-day nightmare. ...

Bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious
- & so must be more carefully examined & better understood. Drawing on contemporary
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Werner Herzog directs this darkly comic thriller loosely based on Abel Ferrara's ' Bad Lieutenant' (1992), although Herzog claims to have never watched the original film. Nicolas Cage stars as corrupt cop Terrence Mc Donagh, a recently-promoted police detective in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, who approaches both his job & his escalating drug habit with instinctive abandon. Playing fast & loose with the law, Mc Donagh channels his manic energy into investigating the death of a family of Senagalese immigrants & taking on local drug kingpin Big Fate (Xzibit). Eva Mendes co-stars as Mc Donagh's troubled prostitute girlfriend, Frankie. ...

Werner Herzog directs this darkly comic thriller loosely based on Abel Ferrara's ' Bad Lieutenant' (1992), although Herzog claims to have never watched the original film. Nicolas Cage stars as corrupt cop Terrence Mc Donagh, a recently-promoted police detective in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, who approaches both his job & his escalating drug habit with instinctive abandon. Playing fast & loose with the law, Mc Donagh channels his manic energy into investigating the death of a family of Senagalese immigrants & taking on local drug kingpin Big Fate (Xzibit). Eva Mendes co-stars as Mc Donagh's troubled prostitute girlfriend, Frankie. ...