Public Opinion/Public Policy
September 6, 2013
According to Abraham Lincoln, “public opinion is everything.” A massive industry now exists to measure public opinion – organisations like YouGov, Gallup, and Ipsos MORI, as well as companies devoted to organising focus groups to test everything from instant soup to the policies of major political parties. And that is without mentioning informal (and misleading) …
Britain’s Cold War in the Caribbean
May 30, 2013
Some historians such as the bullish right-wing TV pundit Niall Ferguson have tried to celebrate the British Empire as a kind of civilising mission and a genuinely co-operative endeavour between coloniser and colonised. Britain’s imperium, they suggest, should be a model for the current troubled nation-building efforts of the USA. It might be thought that …
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