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"Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way' by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the handover to George W. Bush, and the controversial Iraq War."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Meaning of Conflict -- 2 Reaching Westminster -- 3 The Impact of Baldwin and the Search for Dynamism, c.1918-1929 -- 4 Logical Tories? Reflecting on Mosley and the Democratic Process, c. 1929-1935 -- 5 Dictatorship, Empire and Foreign Policy -- 6 A Second War and Debates Over Reform -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

What is One Nation politics? What has it been, and what should be it be today? Since Ed Miliband's speech at the 2012 Labour Party Conference these questions have been much asked, but not so often clearly answered. Outlining the historical context, and offering suggestions for contemporary thinkers, this comprehensive overview shows how all three major UK political parties have made a significant contribution to the One Nation agenda over the past century and a half. Re-asserting the One Nation tradition inherent in interventionist liberals like Keynes and Lloyd George, it encourages us to l.

This article considers two overlapping phenomena: the huge popularity of the Australian soap opera Neighbours in Britain during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the failure of the Labour Party to mount a successful electoral challenge until the leadership of Tony Blair. It argues that Neighbours' appeal—community focussed, friendly, classless, unthreatening, a mixed economy, and in some ways small 'c' conservative—was precisely the platform that Labour needed to convince voters (particularly women and those living in suburbs) that it failed to reach between 1983 and 1992. Neighbours offered an albeit imagined and fictionalised window into Bob Hawke's Australia that many of the British electorate found attractive, but until the Labour party tapped into such support, significant numbers of 'floating voters' would continue to back the Social Democratic Party and, subsequently, John Major's Conservatives. There were generational dynamics at play here—with the 8 in 10 12–15 year olds who watched the show in 1990 unable to vote at earlier elections, but joining the franchise in time for the first Blair landslide of 1997. Neighbours was of course not the only influence on such voters, but it was a meaningful one.

Utilization of complex sonar systems is handicapped by lighting requirements for dark adaptation of personnel. An experiment was conducted to compare reaction times to color-coded indicators under red, nominal white and normal white ambient lighting. Subsequent analysis shows that poorest performance was obtained under red ambient illumination. Visual acuity tests indicate that dark adaptation is primarily dependent upon the overall illumination level rather than upon red lighting. Results tend to prove that an illuminated indicator display color has little effect on dark adaptation, and that certain indicator colors are more quickly detected than others. Recommendations are made for optimal and alternate lighting and indicator color combinations.