When Neil Kinnock became Labour's leader in 1983, the party was at its lowest ebb since the war. Internal wrangling, problems of presentation and personality, as well as a formidable foe in Margaret Thatcher conspired to keep Labour out of office for another 14 years. In that time, however, the party was transformed, and the changes began under Neil Kinnock. Modernizers from Tony Blair to Philip Gould have paid tribute to his vital role in vanquishing the "loony left" and moving the party to the center ground, and Kinnock's post-Labour career at the European Commission has won him new respect and made him a key player.

Kinnock

Biographies & Memoirs

Westlake, Martin

Leaders & Notable People

Little, Brown Book Group

Reading 5X5 x3: Changes

How SFF stories move from ‘maybe’ to publishedWhat's needed to take a story from interesting to publishable? What changes during the editorial process?Reading 5X5 x3 presents 15 case studies of stories published in Metaphorosis magazine. For each story, the anthology includes:Final version — the published version of the storyRevision notes — the editor's initial feedback on the submitted version; the author's intent for the piece; and notes from both author and editor about the editorial process: what surprised, pleased, or disappointed them about the process and the result.Original version — the version of the story originally submitted.There's also an extensive list of common writing flaws, suggestions on how to address them, and examples of stories from the anthology that faced those issues.Reading 5X5 x3 offers not only a selection of great science fiction and fantasy stories, but a terrific learning tool for writers.If you've ever wondered what it takes to get a story published, here's the answer for 15 stories from Metaphorosis.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gardner, Michael

Shelby, Jennifer

Fuller, E.C.

Allen, B. Morris

Sensarma, Abhijato

Yates, Pauline

Dargin, Wade

Ogle, L'Erin

Torone, Lori J.

Fantasy

Verdage

How SFF stories move from ‘maybe’ to published 
What's needed to take a story from interesting to publishable? What changes during the editorial process? 
Reading 5X5 x3 presents 15 case studies of stories published in Metaphorosis magazine. For each story, the anthology includes: Final version — the published version of the story Revision notes — the editor's initial feedback on the submitted version; the author's intent for the piece; and notes from both author and editor about the editorial process: what surprised, pleased, or disappointed them about the process and the result. Original version — the version of the story originally submitted. 
There's also an extensive list of common writing flaws, suggestions on how to address them, and examples of stories from the anthology that faced those issues. 
Reading 5X5 x3 offers not only a selection of great science fiction and fantasy stories, but a terrific learning tool for writers. 
If you've ever wondered what it takes to get a story published, here's the answer for 15 stories from Metaphorosis.

Science Fiction

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins. Table of Contents: Spells for Going Forth by Day - V.G. Campen; Going Home - Martin Westlake; Sanctuary - Chris Cornetto; Siberia in Four Dimensions - Esem Junior. Cover art by Kathryn Weaver.

Metaphorosis March 2021 (Metaphorosis Magazine)

Literature & Fiction

Magazine, Metaphorosis

Campen, V.G.

Cornetto, Chris

Junior, Esem

Short Stories & Anthologies

Metaphorosis Magazine

The June 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected turn against EU membership. Since then, the UK's government has been charting unknown waters in its negotiations to disentangle the United Kingdom from its membership and obligations to the European Union. In this book, Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term, reflex action of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more elaborate and ingenious fixes with opt-outs and rebates to keep its involvement in the project, and rather than a sudden, impulsive act of rejection, Brexit should be seen as having taken place over a number of years at various levels: a gradual slipping of the ties that bound the country to the European Union.

Slipping Loose: The UK's Long Drift Away From the European Union

Business & Money

Economics

Agenda Publishing

A Modern Guide to the European Parliament

This text provides an accessible, critical and analytical guide to the European Parliament, placing the institution in context in the light of the Maastricht Treaty and the forthcoming European elections. The volume should be useful to students as well as those working near to the EC and its institutions, including lawyers, lobbyists and consultants.

History

Europe

UNKNO

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