PHILIP STEPHENS

No es fácil predecir el destino político del líder más sólido del reciente laborismo británico, pero desde su infancia y juventud en un entorno de clase media hasta obtener el cargo de primer ministro con 43 años ha recorrido un largo camino. Dotado de solidas convicciones, Blair ha sido una figura clave en la moderacion de la izquierda britanica y tambien ha sabido conjugar el internacionalismo atlantista con el europeismo. Bajo su mandato, el Partido Laborista vive un o de sus mayores periodos de esplendor desde que fuera fundado hace mas de cien años.

A vital history from the award winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo Irish Treaty and partition These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides of the Irish Sea Cutting through the layers of grievance and prejudice it explores the emotional intimacy and enmity of a relationship shaped by close familial ties and clashing national identities It s a story written by big political leaders David Lloyd George Michael Collins Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera and the millions of Irish emigrants who crossed from Ireland to Britain to begin new lives Today demography Brexit and political logic have brought the possibility of Irish unity into view Grounded in decades of personal contact and interviews with key policymakers across Britain and Europe Stephens maps this complex relationship and asks how Ireland might deploy its history to inform its future rather than hold it in place

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition.Ireland and Britains relationship is as intertwined as it has so often been violent and traumatic. In These Divided Isles the award-winning author and journalist Philip Stephens tells the vital, riveting history that focuses on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and on the unfinished business of partition, revealing how the past has shaped the present and will inform the future of both nations.Telling the story from both sides of the Irish Sea and cutting through the layers of grievance and prejudice, Philips explores the emotional intimacy and enmity of a relationship shaped by close familial ties and clashing national identities. Its a story written by big political leaders - David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera - and the millions of Irish emigrants who crossed from Ireland to Britain to begin new lives.Today demography, Brexit and political logic have brought the possibility of Irish unity into view. Grounded in decades of personal contact and interviews with key policymakers across Britain and Europe, Stephens maps this complex relationship and asks how Ireland might deploy its history to inform its future rather than hold it in place.

NEW AND UPDATED EDITIONA magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britains post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit.The fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britains fateful, tragi-comic road to Brexit.DAVID KYNASTONAn instant classic . . . Stephens is a master of historical codebreaking.PETER HENNESSEYAward-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens paints a fascinating portrait of sixty years - from Suez to Brexit - as Britain struggles to reconcile its waning power with its past glory. Drawing on decades of personal contact and interviews with senior politicians and diplomats in Britain, the United States and across the capitals of Europe, Britain Alone is a magisterial and deeply perceptive history of our nation and how we arrived at the state we are in.Commanding . . . Rarely if ever, in the history of the British state since 1707, has one half of Britains ruling elite committed an act of policy viewed with such absolute contempt by the other half; and rarely has that contempt been expressed with such elegance, such fluency, and such a devastating wealth of supporting detail, as in this mighty survey.SCOTSMANProfoundly knowledgeable.CHRIS PATTENCompelling.LAWRENCE FREEDMANA fascinating history.IRISH TIMESA magnificent, exhilarating bookPROSPECT