Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

At first, Cook intended to become a Church of Scotland minister, but lost his faith as he discovered politics.

Cook was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as MP for the coalfields seat of Hartley in 1891, in Labor's first big breakthrough in Australian politics.

Born Ellen Louks Cook in Hamilton, Ontario, Fairclough was a chartered accountant by training, and ran an accounting firm prior to entering politics.

It was in this mining town where Cook first became involved in politics, committing active service to the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).

After Deakin's departure, the fervent anti-socialist Joseph Cook became leader of the party and it became the dominant right-wing force in Australian politics.

Mayor Richard J. Daley served 1955-76, dominating the city's machine politics by his control of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee, which selected party nominees, who were usually elected in the Democratic stronghold.

Cook was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was an active trade unionist before entering politics.

* Byron Cook has left video games for politics at the end of the year 2000.

It was the first political party founded in the Cook Islands, and one of the two major parties of the Islands ' politics since 1965.

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

The politics of the Falkland Islands takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary representative democratic dependency as set out by the constitution, whereby the Governor exercises the duties of head of state in the absence of the monarch and the Chief Executive acts as the head of government, with an elected Legislative Assembly to propose new laws and hold the executive to account.

He won a seat again in a 1969 by-election in the riding of Nanaimo — Cowichan — The Islands, following the death of Colin Cameron in 1968, and represented it until his retirement from electoral politics in 1979.

His strong nationalist approach to the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute is closer to Right-wing politics, and he has not considered classic left-wing policies such as socialization of production or the nationalization of the public services privatized during the presidency of Carlos Menem.

Born on Tanga Islands, New Ireland Province to Chin Pak ( 陳柏 ), a trader from Taishan, China, Julius Chan was educated at Marist College Ashgrove in Australia and first became actively involved in politics in the 1960s.

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Later that year, presumably to give him a dignified exit from politics, he was appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, a British colonial territory in the Caribbean.

In 1954, passage of the U. S. Virgin Islands Organic Act officially granted territorial status to the three islands, and allowed for the formation of a local senate with politics dominated by the American Republican and Democratic parties.

It is credited with having exerted a strong influence over political debate in the Highlands and Islands, and — along with other concurrent initiatives such as the 7. 84 production, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil and publication of John MacEwen's book Who Owns Scotland ?— restoring the land question to a place of prominence in Scottish politics.

He entered politics at a relatively late stage of his career, being first elected to the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands ( now called the House of Assembly ) in the 1999 general election, as the head of the newly formed National Democratic Party ( NDP ).

Prior to entering domestic Tuvaluan politics, Toafa worked for the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji.

The Banda Islands were only subdued after the indigenous power structure and organisation of trade and politics was destroyed with the extermination and forced evacuation of the Bandanese population ( 1621 ).

Professor Roger Martin Keesing ( 16 May 1935 – 7 May 1993 ) was a linguist and anthropologist, noted for his fieldwork on the Kwaio people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands, and his writings on a wide range of topics including kinship, religion, politics, history, cognitive anthropology and language.

The party dominated Islands politics for the next decade, but lost power at the 1978 elections after it was discovered to have engaged in widespread electoral fraud.

During his prominence in national politics during the 1980s, Alebua was a member of the conservative Solomon Islands United Party.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

Some cities had large dense populations, whereas others carried out urban activities in the realms of politics or religion without having large associated populations.

The more politically active sections within this eschatological view often strongly support the Christian Zionism movement and the associated political, military and economic support for Israel which comes from certain groups within American politics and parts of the Christian right.

The term, historically associated with right-wing politics, has since been used to describe a wide range of views.

He eschewed radical political and economic reforms, promoting instead a small degree of candor in politics and mild economic experiments similar to those that had been associated with the late Premier Alexei Kosygin's initiatives in the mid − 1960s.

For some reason, probably associated with local politics, he subsequently found himself unpopular in Halicarnassus and, sometime around 447 BC, he migrated to Periclean Athens, a city for whose people and democratic institutions he declares his open admiration ( V, 78 ) and where he came to know not just leading citizens such as the Alcmaeonids, a clan whose history features frequently in his writing, but also the local topography ( VI, 137 ; VIII, 52-5 ).

Indira Gandhi is associated with fostering a culture of nepotism in Indian politics and in India's institutions.

Comparative politics is the science of comparison and teaching of different types of constitutions, political actors, legislature and associated fields, all of them from an intrastate perspective.

On the other hand, many historians now point out that most of the negative social factors popularly associated with the medieval period – poverty, warfare, religious and political persecution, for example – seem to have worsened in this era which saw the rise of Machiavellian politics, the Wars of Religion, the corrupt Borgia Popes, and the intensified witch-hunts of the 16th century.

Though he spent much of his life in Athens, Xenophon's involvement in Spartan politics ( he was a close associate of King Agesilaus II ) has led to him being closely associated with the city.

Szasz has indicated that his own views came from libertarian politics held since his teens, rather than through experience in psychiatry ; that in his " rare " contacts with involuntary mental patients in the past he either sought to discharge them ( if they were not charged with a crime ) or " assisted the prosecution in securing conviction " ( if they were charged with a crime and appeared to be prima facie guilty ); that he is not opposed to consensual psychiatry and " does not interfere with the practice of the conventional psychiatrist ", and that he provided " listening-and-talking (" psychotherapy ")" for voluntary fee-paying clients from 1948 until 1996, a practice he characterizes as non-medical and not associated with his being a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist.

While the majority of the Surrealist artists had become increasingly associated with leftist politics, Dalí maintained an ambiguous position on the subject of the proper relationship between politics and art.

The criticism of antitrust law is often associated with conservative politics.

It is often associated with pluralistic politics and representative government, but it can also support democratization by giving citizens, or their representatives, more influence in the formulation and implementation of policies.

This special relationship attracted unfavourable attention since it was associated with " political contributions " ( see below ) and support for anti-democratic politics, as evidenced by papers taken from the body of a Gulf executive killed in the crash of a TWA aircraft at Cairo in 1950.

Although the Christian right is usually associated with the U. S., the movement has been a key factor in the politics of Canada, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Australia, among others.

As used in the U. S., the term is often similar to power politics, while in Germany, Realpolitik is used to describe modest ( realistic ) politics in opposition to idealistic ( unrealistic ) politics, though it is associated with the nationalism of the 19th century.

The scholar Louis Crompton provides substantial contemporary evidence of Henry III's homosexuality, and the associated problems at court and politics.

Another idea associated with Den Uyl was de verbeelding aan de macht ( imagination in the driver's seat, the power of conceptual thinking, particularly in politics ).

He associated these goals with a need for " virtue " and " prudence " in a leader, and saw such virtues as essential to good politics and indeed the common good.

On this matter, gives evidence that Machiavelli may have seen himself as having learned something from Democritus, Epicurus and classical materialism, which was however not associated with political realism, or even any interest in politics.