British Politics in Turmoil:
Andrew J Baker MA
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid
- Category:
- Humanities
- Updated:
- 10th October 2024
- Tagged:
- 2008 Crash | Brexit | Austerity
For almost two decades we have been living through a succession of upheavals; the financial crash, Dave, Theresa, Boris, Liz, Rishi and now, not forgetting Jeremy, Keir. Brexit has added to the mix while Covid has increased our debt; the NHS struggles; inflation rises; families are driven to food banks and we hesitate to define a woman. What interlocking factors lie behind our recent upheavals; what new factors now shape our thinking and our allegiances?
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Andrew is a fluent, engaging and entertaining speaker with a particular interest in social, cultural and political change at home and abroad and the ideas and forces which have shaped today’s world. He gives his audiences insights into the times through which they have lived with a sharp eye for detail and anecdote. Audiences invariably comment on the warmth, clarity, humour and accessibility of his presentations.
Andrew is a regular and highly acclaimed cruise ship lecturer who also gives talks and presentations on a huge range of subjects to audiences across the country and to schools.
His incisive character portraits of many very different men and women whose extraordinary lives have shaped today’s world, are uniformly vivid and compelling while his insights into contemporary social and cultural trends and his ability to enable audiences to see the present within the context of the past, have been widely praised.
Andrew taught in state and independent schools for over 40 years and is the author of a best-selling book on Contemporary British Politics. Drawing on his experience of over 22 years as a Grammar School Headmaster, he recently published a further volume on Education and the Pursuit of Values: A Headmaster’s Reflections. He is now a freelance lecturer.
Audiences require no prior knowledge to find these presentations both moving and unforgettable. There are opportunities here to sit back, reflect, reminisce, remember, laugh and see our own times more clearly.
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