Robert Shepherd

Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles. This book contends that human rights are conceived, imagined, and promoted by dominant states, organizations, and activists within a specific liberal framework, and that, after more than 200 years, the dream of a universal history rooted in the worldview of G. W. F. Hegel has been displaced by the stuff of practical reality. Robert J. Shepherd shifts our attention to rights as a matter of human practice and emphasizes the importance of the actualization of rights within local contexts, demonstrating the spuriousness of categorizing governments as "liberal" or "illiberal" based on preconceived notions of what counts as legitimate rights. This book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, socio-legal studies, and cultural studies.

Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles. This book contends that human rights are conceived, imagined, and promoted by dominant states, organizations, and activists within a specific liberal framework, and that, after more than 200 years, the dream of a universal history rooted in the worldview of G. W. F. Hegel has been displaced by the stuff of practical reality. Robert J. Shepherd shifts our attention to rights as a matter of human practice and emphasizes the importance of the actualization of rights within local contexts, demonstrating the spuriousness of categorizing governments as "liberal" or "illiberal" based on preconceived notions of what counts as legitimate rights. This book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, socio-legal studies, and cultural studies.

The Christian named Job, who was a contemporary and lived during the time of Abraham, cried out, "Though He slays me, yet will I trust in HIM." Job was laying in dust and wallowing in sackcloth and in ashes, scraping himself with broken-pottery to relieve himself of some of the irritation and pain he was suffering from being covered in sore-boils and eaten alive by maggots which thrived upon and consumed the decaying skin and sores of his emaciated flesh. Job also being afflicted, responded with hope, envisioning eternal life, and said, "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." The apostle Paul, who suffered many things himself, said these words to encourage us: "Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." "For many", King David wisely observed, "are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." This book is written in the year of our LORD, 2021, to encourage Christians to endure the storms of life... for Storms must come. In this book, I obediently encourage God's people "to stand " "And after having done all to stand," I encouraged them "to keep standing." This book is written to embolden faithful men and women to endure the storms in these perilous last days, before the return of our Lord Jesus Christ in the air, surrounded by clouds, at the call of the Angelic Trump, which only those who believe will be able to hear. In the book of Job-Job informs us that "a man that is born of a woman, live but a few days and those days are full of trouble." Hope you enjoy and be blessed by this book As you patiently persevere, on planet earth, preparing yourself for Everlasting--Eternal life; AFTER THE STORM.

I meet so many so-called Christians today who'll quickly say, "I know the Man" while living like heathens. In this book, I want to give you a list of men in the Old and New Testament who met Jesus and show how their lives were miraculously changed and how they were no longer the same after encountering the KING I pray this book will help you to examine yourself to see whether you've truly met the KING and you're truly living in the faith. Every man or woman who truly meets KING JESUS will depart from HIS presence, in some form or fashion; a different creature... totally changed.2 Corinthians 5:17 states, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new." When one meets Jesus, he or she will never again enjoy sin as unregenerate sinners do before encountering the KING; fearlessly and greedily flaunting sin in God's face. Sin will always grieve, overwhelm, and disturb those men and women who have truly had an encounter with God. In this book, I will tell my readers of men, who intentionally or unintentionally had an encounter with the KING and will relay to you what happened to them and how their lives changed. I pray that as you read this book, my friend, that you will see the LORD in all of HIS glory; High and Lifted up, and that your life will never be the same

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transcripts of the collected interviews for the first time, The Complete Reflections features interviews the biggest names from the Thatcher era, the New Labour years, and the coalition government of the 2010s. In The Complete Reflections, Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepherd provide not only an overview of the past three decades of British politics but also delve into the minds of those at the forefront of public life during times of great change. Hennessy's deep knowledge and understanding of the lives and motivations of his interviewees, along with the obvious esteem in which they hold their interlocutor, leads to frank and revealing conversations in which the subject is not an object but an equal, giving these exchanges a unique veracity. The results are portraits of high authority, in which interviews become the chronicles that endure above all others--nothing less than the first draft of history.

The historian, wrote E. L. Doctorow, will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensitive and probing. "Reflections "collects transcripts of the best interviews from the BBC Radio 4 series "Reflections with Peter Hennessy," a show on which the British political elite have spoken candidly about their careers and the moments that came to define their political lives. Supplementing the interviews are short biographies and profiles of the interviewees, allowing readers a fuller picture of each speaker s background and professional trajectory. This revealing book includes conversations with political heavyweights such as former prime minister John Major; former foreign secretaries Margaret Beckett, David Owen, and Jack Straw; Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock; Liberal Party leader David Steel; and chancellor of exchequer Nigel Lawson. In addition, "Reflections" presents interviews with leading women, including Shirley Williams and Clare Short, who spent years at the forefront of their parties in Westminster. The latest volume in the popular Haus Curiosities series, "Reflections" offers valuable insights from some of today s most influential political figures. "

This is the remarkable story of Westminster, a royal capital that became the birthplace of parliamentary government and the centre of a world power. It is about the place, its people and their close relationship. They have made and shaped one another. The ancient heart of Westminster is only the size of a village, yet it boasts world famous buildings: the Abbey, the Houses of Parliament and Number 10 Downing Street. As befits a village, Westminster is rich in folklore and gossip, yet its story is central to Britain's history and anywhere that has parliamentary government. This biography of Westminster traces the extraordinary transformation of a secluded island on the banks of the Thames into a spiritual centre, a royal ceremonial stage and a political capital. It brings to life the monarchs and prime ministers for whom Westminster has been home, the architects and writers whom it inspired, and the protestors and rebels whom it provoked. It is a tale of inspiration, intrigue, power, protest and terror.