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Lord Goodman
For just over a decade, from 1963 to the mid 1970s, Arnold Goodman was the most powerful non-elected figure in Britain. His power was based on access to the top political and social figures in the age of Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. He was skilled at extracting the most fulsome apologies in libel cases, and even more skilled in stopping unwelcome stories before they appeared. He also chaired the Arts Council, brokered for theObserver,and performed several other notable services. Brian Brivati's study is fair-minded and often sympathetic,nbsp;as henbsp;tracks Goodman's many acts of kindness and personal patronage, and his genuine and pervasive sense of humor. But also included is a full account of Goodman's financial dealings with the Portman family funds, and of his acting as "middleman" when Mohammed Fayed paid for Norman Tebbit, then Secretary of State for Industry, to have a new car for his wife.
The Goodman Lectures, 1973-1982
The first ten of a series of lectures established to commemorate the memory of Irvine George Aitchison.
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The Jewish Contribution to English Law
The story of Jewish emancipation is not well-known, nor how Jews made such an important contribution to law and democracy in England. In The Jewish Contribution to English Law, Barrington Black explains how Jews first came to the UK, were expelled, returned, and eventually took their place in Parliament and on the bench. He tells of the first Jewish lawyers as well as those who rose to be judges, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls and Attorney-General. The turning point was a Statute of 1858 which allowed Jews to take an oath compatible with their religious beliefs (extending comparable benefits conferred on Catholics almost 70 years befo...
Pirate Gold
Fifty years ago, after a long delay, the government acted to close down the dozen or so pirate radio stations which had sprung up around the British coast. Many of the stories about those ships and offshore forts are well known, but this book asks intriguing questions about what was really going on behind the scenes. Offshore unlicensed radio stations were not a new idea, they had existed in different forms elsewhere for decades, so why did the phenomenon blossom in the UK when it did? It is common to conflate the rise of the UK pirate radio stations with the liberation struggles going on at the same time: civil rights protests, anti-war movements, student unrest and increasingly liberal attitudes to sex and sexuality. Fifty years on we can appreciate the reality: the people behind the early offshore stations were frequently motivated by very different political agendas and often the ships and forts were simply pawns in much bigger power games.
A Fiddler's Tale
Companion CD contains 13 recordings from 1942-1952.
