David Miliband
Autor(a) de Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time (TED Books)
About the Author
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Obras de David Miliband
Improving Humanitarian Aid: How to Make Relief More Efficient and Effective [journal article] 1 exemplar(es)
Reinventando a esquerda 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1965-07-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Oxford (Corpus Christi)
Primrose Hill Primary School, Camden, London
Haverstock Comprehensive School, North London
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Ocupação
- Prime Minister's Policy Unit
Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001-2013)
United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2007-2010)
United Kingdom Minister of State for Communities and Local Government (2005-2006)
politician - Relacionamentos
- Miliband, Ralph (father)
Miliband, Ed (brother)
Kozak, Marion (mother) - Organizações
- Labour Party (UK)
International Rescue Committee
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 36
- Popularidade
- #397,831
- Avaliação
- 2.5
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 8
The first chapter took an absolute age to read. The book is written, not in English, but in politic speak. After thirty, or so, pages of toil, one's brain gets into an automatic translation mode. It is then that one realises that one's time would be better spent watching the grass grow. The book is filled with trite aphorisms. It is partly the bl***ing obvious and partly chains based upon questionable starting points. I suspect that whilst GB was involved in groups coming up with this, that Tony Blair neatly side-stepped and got on with the real issue of winning and then retaining power.
The one interesting thing to come from reading this is the ease with which the big ideas of yesterday are so simply replaced with the ideas of today. We now have a Conservative government, once more, and they too are shedding skin faster than a snake in a handbag factory.… (mais)