How to win at politics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1388147,00.html
For 500 years his name has been synonymous with ruthlessness,
manipulation and backstabbing. But could the much-maligned Machiavelli
tell us the truth about politics in our time? Jonathan Jones on why
Brown and Blair have much to learn from a 16th-century thinker
Wednesday January 12, 2005
The Guardian
The 16th-century political thinker Niccol=F2 Machiavelli knew how to get
rid of a troublesome minister, even a chancellor. Modern leaders fret
and fuss and fall out. They make promises and break them and time their
speeches to upstage one another. Really, it's all so lily-livered. In
Machiavelli's Florence, Tony Blair would have had Gordon Brown quietly
poisoned by now, and if not, he himself would be food for eels in the
river Arno.
Machiavelli
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