Stephen Barber
Stephen Barber is Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, Senior Fellow of the Global Policy Institute (London Metropolitan University) and Book Review Editor of Social Europe Journal.
New Politics, Old Dilemmas
The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Blair, by David Marquand Orion Books, ISBN-13: 978-0753807064 This is an unusual book review in that it represents something of an appeal for a new edition to a long thumbed through publication. It has been a decade since David Marquand, academic and one-time politician, updated his classic: The [...]
‘Social Democracy’ is no Such Thing
Rewind twenty five or thirty years and we would find an argument raging about the difference between social democracy and democratic socialism. This was perhaps before the former found its voice in our modern economy and was at a time when the real idea of socialism still enjoyed credence in mainstream politics. We now know [...]
A Lasting Impression from the Man who would be European King?
Just two years after his departure from Downing Street comes this early attempt to assess Tony Blair’s legacy as British prime minister. And it arrives at a time when Blair was being considered for the new role of President of the European Council; an ambition he was unable to realise. Such renewed interest surely focuses [...]
The Fragility of Democracy
John Keane, professor of politics at the University of Westminster and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, calls it ‘serendipity’. A decade in the writing and the first attempt at a full scale history of democracy in over a century, The Life and Death of Democracy hits the book shelves with the sort of timing that no-one [...]
