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First confession : a sort of memoir
Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight' and provide retrospective justification for their careers. That is not the case with this book. 'It occurred to me that to track down myself would enable me to discuss an issue that had begun to intrigue me, namely the relationship between politics and identity, the things that had shaped me and whether and how they had come to reflect my life and opinions. As I wrote, the question of identity moved from the wings to centre stage, and roiled politics and nations on both sides of the Atlantic.' 'Who am I? Who are we?' Chris Patten's career has taken him from the outer London suburbs to the House of Commons, a seat in the Cabinet, last Governor of Hong Kong, Chairman of the BBC and Chancellor of Oxford University. About all of these he is enlightening and entertaining. He has unexpected and telling things to say about each of the three Prime Ministers for whom he worked - Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. But his political heroes - Baldwin, Macmillan, Butler - came from an earlier time: he is proud to be 'wet', and reckons all his paladins were pretty damp themselves. But more, Patten uses each phase of his life as a spur to reflect upon its contemporary situation - education, America, conservatism, Ireland, China, Europe and finally the question of links between violence and religion. Unlike one No.10 press secretary, Patten definitely 'does God'. At the end, the reader has an impression of someone who knows himself as well as any of us can, and who continues to think, passionately and intelligently, about the world around him. Wise, funny and opinionated, First Confession is a different sort of memoir, a meditation on personal and political identity which, in an age of simplification, reminds us of the complexities of both.
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Leadership and sovereignty in a muddled world
A real challenge of leadership today is to encourage the citizens of nation states to understand the extent to which their imagined control over events and their sovereignty has to be shared with others in order to be meaningful and effective. That is far from easy in a world where identity politics still dominates so many societies. But the problems that crowd in on nation states are beyond their capacity to deal with on their own. Terrorism, organised crime, epidemic disease and especially climate change all demand a multilateral approach. We need to co-operate at a more profound, wider and deeper level than ever before.
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The Hong Kong diaries
\"In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China\"--Publisher's description.
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Inhibition of PAD4 activity is sufficient to disrupt mouse and human NET formation
Inhibitors of the PAD4 enzyme that bind the inactive enzyme link this protein deiminase and the resultant arginine-to-citrulline modification to formation of neutrophil extracellular traps, highly decondensed chromatin structures with both host-defense and pathological roles.
PAD4 has been strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune, cardiovascular and oncological diseases through clinical genetics and gene disruption in mice. New selective PAD4 inhibitors binding a calcium-deficient form of the PAD4 enzyme have validated the critical enzymatic role of human and mouse PAD4 in both histone citrullination and neutrophil extracellular trap formation for, to our knowledge, the first time. The therapeutic potential of PAD4 inhibitors can now be explored.
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شرق وغرب : السلطة والحرية والمستقبل /
هذا الكتاب ليس مذكرات أو سيرة ذاتية لكاتبه، كريس باتن آخر حاكم بريطاني لهونج كونج، إنما هو قراءة لأكثر التجارب تشويقا وغنى للكاتب، وأكثر الفترات أهمية في تاريخ آخر المستعمرات البريطانية؛ بهدف استخلاص الدروس والعبر العامة منها لقد قدمت السنوات الخمس الحرجة التي قضاها الكاتب حاكما لهونج كونج قبل انتقال السيادة عليها إلى الصين عام 1997، فرصة فريدة لرؤية ما كان يحدث في آسيا، وفي الصين تحديدا. وقد استفاد الكاتب من تلك الفرصة في فهم كثير من القضايا المهمة وفضائل النمور الآسيوية وقيمها، وأسباب انهيار اقتصاداتها، ومستقبلها. كما سعى إلى وضع عدد من الفرضيات المغايرة حول آسيا، وحول تطبيق السياسة الاقتصادية، وحول عناصر الحكم الجيد ومكوناته، وحول العلاقة بين الحرية السياسية والتحرر الاقتصادي.
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Islam and the West at the Crossroads
In their eyes, Turkey has grappled with the existential question, against a background of economic uncertainty and terrorist activity, and has unequivocally chosen the European course. Why, they ask, is that not recognised? The answers to those questions matter to our own geopolitical interests. How much interest should we take in the fate of our southern neighbour and ally, bordered by Iraq, Iran, Syria and the southern Caucusus?
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