Compass universally used as compass until the invention of the box-like compass with a 'dry' pivoting needle sometime around 1300. Originally, many compasses were marked only as to the direction of magnetic north, or to the four cardinal points (north, south, east, west). Later, these were divided, in China into 24, and in Europe into 32 equally spaced points around the compass card. For a table of the thirty-two points, see compass points. In the modern era, the 360-degree system took hold. This system is still in use today for civilian navigators. The degree system spaces 360 equidistant points located clockwise
The Broken Compass Continuum, with the altered subtitle "How Left and Right Lost Their Meaning". In anticipation of the 2010 general election, a revised paperback edition with the new title "The Cameron Delusion" was released in the UK on 17 March 2010. Poole in his "Guardian" review wrote that "Hitchens should at least be applauded for taking the trouble to provide an amusing index, a duty shirked by too many authors." The index was the subject of a full-page parody by Craig Brown in the magazine "Private Eye". The Broken Compass The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way is the fourth