The old rules of Left & Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade & the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The progressive BBC gives a fair hearing to the Conservative Party. Socialist journalists turn & rend Ken Livingstone. In democratic London merely expressing your opinion can be seriously bad for your career while in autocratic Moscow you can say pretty much what you like provided you dont do anything about it. The tearing down of the old Iron Curtain may have allowed markets to sweep into the old Warsaw Pact lands
- but it has also permitted revolutionary left-wing ideas to spread like a bacillus through the West. Nobody really cares any more about the old shibboleths of state ownership. The British Labour Party
- which opposed nuclear weapons supposedly on principle when they mattered
- is quite happy to spend billions on the same weapons now that they are unnecessary. The supposed right is as confused & nonsensical as the supposed left. Neo-conservatives run vast budget deficits at home & engage in utopian adventures abroad. They are actively opposed to old conservative ideas such as national sovereignty strong families & rigorous selective education & happy to bend the knee to left-wing orthodoxies from man-made global warming to egalitarianism. The political compass is broken its needle swinging wildly & meaninglessly. The existing political parties have converged or perhaps simply retreated in confusion on to what looked like safe territory the often tried & repeated failed policies of Fabian Social Democracy now worsened by 1960s sexual & social radicalism. They are no longer adversaries their personnel are interchangeable & they struggle to find ways to distinguish themselves from each other. They simply ignore
- or deny
- huge areas of human experience & concern from mass immigration to the collapse of marriage & the disappearance of order & rigour in the state education system. Yet conventional wisdom continues to insist that formal politics can & should continue as it did before
- & that an exasperated & increasingly angry electorate should place its hopes in a mere change of personnel at the next election. Peter Hitchens argues for the re-establishment of proper adversary politics & the rediscovery of principle.





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Greedy vain & ambitious personalities dominate English football. From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed Richard Branson & most recently Geoffrey Robinson BROKEN DREAMS is a superbly incisive account of how self-interested individuals adopting questionable & predatory business methods are exploiting the sport of football to earn billions of pounds & huge glory. Focusing on key figures including Terry Venables Ken Bates David Dein Harry Redknapp Rio Ferdinand & other famous agents chairmen & managers Tom Bower exposes the money the politics & the vicious battles behind the beautiful game. For the first time a non-sports writer reveals the vanity & greed which endanger the national sport. ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter must call on a feathered friend to track down a famous artifact.. .and solve a murder in the process. The Arumbaya fetish has been stolen! But with the help of a talking parrot Tintin is soon on the hunt for the famous artefact which can be distinguished by its broken ear. He must solve a murder & discover the true value of the fetish & quick
- because he is not the only one on the trail! Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.
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A gritty tale of family & a love that holds no bounds from the best-selling author of Nobodys Girl & A Fathers Revenge. Celia Frost has always thought herself a cut above the other residents of Lark Rise in Battersea. When her beloved son Thomas starts seeing Amy Miller a girl from the bottom of the Rise Celia disapproves thinking her common. When Celias husband leaves her & Thomas announces he is to marry Amy she is more determined than ever to split them up. Celia needs an ally so she writes to her elder son Jeremy asking him to come home. Jeremys arrival unleashes a tide of jealously & hate. He wants everything that belongs to Thomas
- especially Amy. As Jeremys dangerous obsession for his brothers wife grows Amy must fight for her marriage & her baby. The heartbreaking new novel from the bestselling author of A Fathers Revenge & Nobodys Girl.
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She was too grown-up for childish games but too young to become a woman. Living with her parents & brother in her Grandmother Emmas enormous mansion Jordan March tries to be a good girl & follow her grandmothers strict rules. But one day without warning Jordans body begins to change & everyone notices her in a way that seems dark dangerous & threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed & Jordan is ashamed & afraid that her soft curves are somehow unwelcome. Now Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her familys past mistakes sending her world spinning wildly out of control. ...

If you dont care about her who will? Hope Randall leads a quiet life but that peace is about to be shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had hes going to change her world for ever. Connies in deep trouble & the mysterious Flint needs Hopes help in finding her. Returning to London Hope is forced to confront old demons
- & new ones. To find her sister shell have to toughen up & fast. But when she enters the dark underworld of the East End its not only the notoriously savage Street family shell have to worry about: theres also a psychopath on the loose attacking working girls. If Connies going to be saved Hope may have to get close to the enemy.. .
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Chrissie Reid a young battered wife living on a small Orkney island in 1906 finally turns on her husband Jack. After a particularly brutal attack she is driven to offering him poison. With no memory of that night she believes she has killed him especially when she finds evidence of a body buried in the byre. In spite of her guilt at having taken another life Chrissie eventually finds love again. Her strength determination & love for her fellow islanders carry her through fourteen years of hardship intercepted & exacerbated by the Great War. But the past wont stay hidden & fourteen years after that fateful night Chrissie is forced to confront the nightmare which has overshadowed her life. With the arrival of a letter she discovers that nothing is as it seems. A series of events over which she has no control are set in motion. Lies & secrets are uncovered leading to a dramatic & tragic climax. ...

Its Mardi Gras but for sixteen-year-old Trinity this is no time for celebration. Another girl has gone missing. & Trinity is seeing things
- terrible things. Tormented by visions she cant explain Trinity embarks on a dark journey to understand her abilities convinced this is the only way to prevent the things she sees from coming true. But as the line between reality & illusion becomes blurred everyone who loves Trinity begins to fear for her sanity & ultimately for her life...
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In the city of Shadow beneath the World Tree alleyways shimmer with magic & godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth a blind artist takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. However this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone somehow is murdering godlings leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it his presence putting her in mortal danger
- but is it him the killers want or Oree? & is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?
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Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...A desperate tragedy a life-long friend & the long & lonely journey to find a family. Edward Carter is a bully of a man who inspires fear in the hearts of all who meet him. Adam Carter is twelve years old an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father's reign of terror over his family has Adam's mother Peggy too cowed to protect her son so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis the school bus driver. Then one afternoon when Adam is his last drop of the day Phil makes a life-changing decision
- to accompany Adam along the darkening woodland lane to his house. But in the house at the end of the track a terrible tragedy is unfolding & it is one that will bind them together forever.
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