The Economics of Fair Trade Coffee: For Whose Benefit?. An Investigation Into the Limits of Fair Trade as a Development Tool and the Risk of Clean-Washing

As an "assemblage," Coningsby most clearly resembles not Parliament, whose deliberations have degenerated into gossip and self-serving intrigue, but the "free and intellectual press," which Sidonia presents as above party and class and as capable of restoring dignity even to the monarchy. "The representation of the -514- Press is far more complete than the representation of Parliament," Coningsby echoes two books later. "Let us propose… a free monarchy, established on the fundamental laws… ruling an educated people, represented by a free and intellectual press. Before such a royal authority, supported by such a national opinion, the sectional anomalies of our country would disappear." If Disraeli considers the press so important and Parliament so ineffectual, it may seem strange that he brings Coningsby onto the public stage as a member of Parliament and offers as his only example of a journalist the despicable Rigby, author of «slashing» lampoons and would-be spoiler of Coningsby's success. Like the principles of Young England in general, however, Disraeli's image of the "free and intelligent" press as an «assemblage» of opinions is frankly idealized ...»