Ukania under blair

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-90

  Nairn, Tom ^a  

^a NONE

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EID: 0039178052     PISSN: 00286060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (3)

1. Vintage Books, December 1997.
2. This Time, p. 273
3. The worst fears of critics were to be boundlessly exceeded by what surfaced in early 2000: an A5 'summary' of the Royal Commission's report ('A House for the Future', 99-5271/0001/D160; cd-rom attached). As if in deliberate mimicry of the contents, the cover shows ghostly images of the Britannic landmass fading away into an ochreous middle distance. The proposal is for an appointee body selected by other appointees, plus an unspeakably bathetic 'regional' component elected through some 'model' yet to be decided. The spirit of the whole collapsed soufflé is best conveyed by Recommendation 128 (Chapter 18, p. 27): 'The question of the name of the second chamber and the titles of its members should be left to evolve ...'