Martin Bell: A Very British Revolution

Here’s two clips of Martin talking about A Very British Revolution (and much else besides) on, firstly, ITV’s Loose Women:

And secondly, Channel Five’s The Wright Stuff:

Courtesy of Manchester News:

Here’s a clip from earlier this year featuring Martin discussing the MP’s expenses scandal earlier this year on News at Ten:

Martin Bell has now begun his mammoth book tour in support of A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy.

He started at the Blenheim Literary Festival on Saturday and the next date is at the Appledore Literary Festival in Devon. Before the end of September he’ll be in Norwich and Manchester and continues from there in October.

Full details are available here and if you’d like any further details on any event, please get in touch via info@iconbooks.co.uk

Martin Bell is interviewed by Stuart Littleford of the Government and Public Sector Journal about his new book, to be published at the start of October:

A Very British Revolution, Martin Bell’s new book on the MP’s expenses scandal and what’s next for British democracy, arrived at Icon Books’ HQ today.

It is published on 2nd October.

Martin Bell reads an extract from his forthcoming A Very British Revolution, published by Icon Books on October 2nd 2009.

photo credit: openDemocracy

New Labour was propelled into office in 1997 on a tide of protest against the sleaze of the Tory years.  Yet at the end of its first decade in power, public trust in public life stood lower than it did at the beginning.
How did this happen?  How much of it was due to individual scandals, how much to the war in Iraq and how much to abuses of power and patronage?  It should not have been like this.

So much of what occurred was unpredictable – and, in retrospect, unbelievable.

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