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Nick blogs on things that matter to our public life, from the heart of progressive thinking in Britain.
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The term ‘Thatcherism’ was first coined by Stuart Hall in his seminal 1979 essay, ‘The Great Moving Right Show’. At that time, it was the Eurocommunist intellectuals grouped around the magazine Marxism Today – Hall, Eric Hobsbawm and kindred spirits … Continue reading
It is always sad when someone who has been doing a great job steps down – and the hope has to be that you can find someone who will be an able replacement. Fortunately that is the situation which we … Continue reading
Sweden’s finance minister, Andreas Borg, cuts an impressive figure, and not just because he sports a ponytail and earring. He has steered the Swedish economy through troubled times in Europe, avoiding a double-dip recession while keeping its public finances in … Continue reading
Picking through the detritus of twitterings and commentary on The Speech, I came across the remarkable book-length essay, The Left Against Europe, penned in 1972 by Tom Nairn, the redoubtable Scottish new left thinker. Although its Marxian analytical framework is … Continue reading
It wasn’t always like this. Social security was once a strategic political asset for the centre-left in Britain. State pensions, unemployment and sickness insurance, social housing and child allowances all commanded considerable popular support. The extension of the welfare state … Continue reading
In the screeds of prose currently being written about Barack Obama’s re-election and what it might or might not mean for UK politics, it is the economy, stupid, that stands out as most perplexing.
Historically, deep economic crises have tended to manifest themselves in ideological and political disruptions and paradigm shifts.
Should social democrats be conservative? Emphatically not, declares David Miliband in today’s New Statesman leader. Social democracy cannot win and govern successfully in defensive posture, putting up protective barricades around its remaining citadels. Nostalgia for a post-war heyday will not … Continue reading
Two episodes shape my feelings about reform of the House of Lords.
Over the bank holiday break I finished reading DR Thorpe’s magnificent biography of Harold Macmillan, Supermac. It is a classic of political biography. Although too charitable to Macmillan in parts, and wrongheaded on some key historical moments, like the Suez … Continue reading
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