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Duff Making the Difference
1. Auflage 2011
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Essays in Honour of Shirley Williams
E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-84954-274-6
Verlag: Biteback Publishing
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Andrew Duff is the Liberal Democrat MEP for the East of England.
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Sir Menzies Campbell QC has been Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for North East Fife since 1987. He was the party’s spokesman on security and defence issues for many years, opposing the UK’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. From 2006–7 Campbell was leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Andrew Duff has been the Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament for the East of England since 1999, and is spokesman on constitutional affairs for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). He has been president of the Union of European Federalists since 2008, and was director of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, 1993–9. Saving the European Union: The Logic of the Lisbon Treaty was published in 2009.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock has been the director of the Ditchley Foundation since 2004, having previously served as the UK’s permanent representative to the UN in New York (1988–2003) and the UK’s special envoy for Iraq (2003–4).
Germaine Greer is Professor Emeritus of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Born in Australia, she is a feminist writer and broadcaster. Her many publications include the best-selling The Female Eunuch (1970) and, most recently, Shakespeare’s Wife (2007).
Richard Harries is Gresham Professor of Divinity. He was Bishop of Oxford from 1987–2006, and is now a life peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth). He is the author of a number of books, most recently Faith in Politics? Rediscovering the Christian Roots of Our Political Values and Issues of Life and Death: Christian Faith and Medical Intervention.
Peter Hennessy has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London since 2001. He is a noted journalist and broadcaster on constitutional issues. Among his publications are Cabinets and the Bomb (2007), Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (2006), and The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945 (2000).
David Howarth is Reader in Private Law at the University of Cambridge, fellow of Clare College and associate fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy at the Judge Business School. His research concentrates on the relationship between law, politics and economics. From 2005–10 he was Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for Cambridge, serving as shadow Secretary of State for Justice and as shadow Energy Minister, and as a member of the Commons’ Justice and Environmental Audit Committees.
Dame Jennifer Jenkins is the widow of Roy Jenkins (Lord Jenkins of Hillhead). She was chairman of the Consumers Association from 1965–76. A distinguished conservationist, she became chairman of the National Trust from 1986–90.
John Kampfner is chief executive of Index on Censorship. He has worked for the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and the BBC’s flagship Today programme. He was editor of the New Statesman 2005–8. His latest book is Freedom for Sale (2009); and his pamphlet Lost Labours: Where Now for the Liberal Left? was launched by Nick Clegg in March 2010.
Charles Kennedy is the Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, having first won its predecessor seat as a member of the SDP in 1983. He is president of the European Movement in the UK, rector of Glasgow University and between 1999 and 2006 was the leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Helena Kennedy (Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws) is a Queen’s Counsel, practising in the field of human rights and civil liberties. She is president of the School of Oriental and African Studies, chair of Justice, the British arm of the International Commission of Jurists, and a trustee of the British Museum. She is a former chair of the British Council and of the Human Genetics Commission.
Anthony King has been Professor of Government at Essex University since 1969. A Canadian by birth and a former Rhodes Scholar, he has also taught at Oxford, Princeton and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is best known for his journalism and broadcasting on politics and elections. His most recent book is The British Constitution (2008).
Roger Liddle is chair of Policy Network, the international progressive think tank. He worked in 10 Downing St as European adviser to Tony Blair from 1997 to 2004 and then in Brussels for three years, working first in the cabinet of Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson and then as a policy adviser to the President of the Commission, José Manuel Barroso. Roger Liddle recently joined the Labour benches in the House of Lords.
John Lloyd is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and director of journalism at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, director of the Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy and a columnist for La Repubblica. He was editor of the New Statesman in the 1980s and of Time Out in the 1970s. His books include Loss without Limit: The British Miners’ Strike; Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia; and What the Media are Doing to Our Politics.
Clifford Longley is a Catholic journalist, broadcaster and author. He is editorial consultant, columnist and leader writer for The Tablet, and consultant to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the production of The Common Good and the Catholic Church’s Social Teaching (1996) and Choosing the Common Good (2010).
Robert Maclennan has been a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords since 2001 (Lord Maclennan of Rogart). He was successively Labour, SDP and Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for Caithness and Sutherland for thirty-five years. He was president of the Liberal Democrats 1992–6. From 1995–7 he co-chaired with Robin Cook talks between Labour and the Lib Dems on constitutional reform.
David Owen (Lord Owen of the City of Plymouth) was Labour and then SDP member of Parliament for Plymouth from 1966–92. Under Labour governments, he served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party established in 1981 and its leader from 1983–7 and 1988–90. He sits as an independent social democrat in the House of Lords. From 1992–5 Lord Owen served as EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia. In 1999 he established New Europe, which worked with Business for Sterling in the ‘Yes to Europe, no to the euro’ campaign. He is currently director of the Centre for International Humanitarian Cooperation, and has business interests in America and Russia.
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as US Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton. His many publications include The Work of Nations and Supercapitalism. He is the co-founder of the American Prospect magazine. His newest book, out in September, is Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future. He blogs at www.robertreich.org.
Bill Rodgers (Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank) was Labour and then SDP member of Parliament for Stockton-on-Tees 1962–83. He was a member of James Callaghan’s 1976–9 Labour Cabinet and one of the SDP’s ‘Gang of Four’. He succeeded Roy Jenkins as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, 1997–2001.
Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton) was a professor at Warwick University, first of International Studies, then of Economics. He was made an SDP life peer in 1991 and now sits on the Cross Benches. He is mainly known for his three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes and has recently published Keynes: The Return of the Master. He and Shirley are on the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He has always been interested in education.
David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood) was a Member of Parliament from 1965 to 1997. He became leader of the Liberal Party in 1976, and in 1977–8 he championed the Lib–Lab pact. He led his party into alliance with the SDP, leading in 1988 to union as the Liberal Democrats. David Steel played a key role in the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament, and was its first Presiding Officer until 2003. Among his publications are A House Divided, and his autobiography Against Goliath.
Sir Crispin Tickell is the Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at Oxford University. Between 1984 and 1987 he was the Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration (now DfID), and between 1987 and 1990 British Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. He then became Warden of Green College Oxford until 1997. He is an author and contributor to many publications on environmental and related issues. His interests include governance, business, climate change and the early history of the Earth.
Sir Stephen Wall was for thirty-five years a member of the British Diplomatic Service. He was Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime Minister John Major, and then UK Permanent Representative to the EU from 1995–2000. He was EU adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair...
