Reviews
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 [...]
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 [...]
What does Brussels want?
Maybe now, in the midst of the slump, is not the right moment in time to be pondering an integrated social policy for Europe, as other issues appear more pressing and the economic downturn seems to dominate everything. But maybe now is in fact precisely the right time to be considering these things: it is [...]
