Titlebook: Rhetoric in British Politics and Society; Judi Atkins (Research Fellow in British Politics), Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Rhetoric and Political Intervention — Churchill’s World War II Speeches in Contextce, whereby the author made speakers ‘say what was in my opinion demanded of them by the occasion’, but the centrality of rhetoric to his vision of war is indisputable (Thucydides, 1972, p. 47). Following Plato, however, the Western tradition has often viewed rhetoric as a delusive art, inimical to

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Rhetoric and Morality — How the Coalition Justifies Welfare Policyher concerns. The Coalition Agreement signed by both parties in the wake of the 2010 general election argued that this was ‘the most urgent issue facing Britain’ (HM Government, 2010, p. 15). In the subsequent emergency budget, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, outlined his desire

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Rhetoric and Multiculturalism — David Cameron’s ‘King James’ Speech and the Crisis of Multiculturalio a gathering of Church of England Clergy in 2011. This chapter will provide an examination of how his speech sought to use the rhetorical elements of ethos, pathos and logos in its account of the need for Britain to be more clearly asserted as a Christian country. This argument needs to be put in t

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Rhetoric and Race — David Starkey and the 2011 English Riotsc of immigration and race relations has played a significant part in British political life. In 1968, the Conservative politician Enoch Powell gave his notorious ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech (Powell, 1968a), in which he dramatically voiced white resentment against coloured immigration and expressed the

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