New Statesman - <![CDATA[Ben Pimlott]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ben_pimlott en <![CDATA[Can Blair survive?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200302240012 http://www.newstatesman.com/200302240012 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott British PMs are hard to get rid of except at elections, and Labour leaders are almost safe for life. It's when the bombs fall that everything starts to change

]]> <![CDATA[No mountain high enough. Ben Pimlott acclaims a monumental biography of Keynes, who struggled against an incurable heart condition to become the architect of the postwar consensus]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200012250058 http://www.newstatesman.com/200012250058 Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 Robert Skidelsky Macmillan, 580pp, £25 ISBN 0333604563

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Essay - Mr Blair and Mr Blair]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230018 http://www.newstatesman.com/200010230018 Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott Ben Pimlott on what the PM doesn't have in common with George Orwell

]]> <![CDATA["We're going to have to get you out today," said the consultant. "Otherwise, we'll need bunk beds."]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200001240005 http://www.newstatesman.com/200001240005 Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Essay - To uplift the souls of the people]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199911080018 http://www.newstatesman.com/199911080018 Mon, 08 Nov 1999 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott Blair's call for moral purpose echoes a very old Labour theme

]]> <![CDATA[Paradoxes and circles. Can new Labour succeed where Churchill failed and solve one of the great intractable problems of British politics?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199905170044 http://www.newstatesman.com/199905170044 Mon, 17 May 1999 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott Unfinished Business: Reforming the House of Lords Ivor Richard and Damien Welfare Vintage, 226pp, £6.99

]]> <![CDATA[We ought to acknowledge that Hitler - abused, lonely, romantic - was a rather appealing character]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199901080004 http://www.newstatesman.com/199901080004 Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott

]]> <![CDATA[The idea of a European superstate was born in Britain, but we've remained stubbornly on the margins ever since]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199812180065 http://www.newstatesman.com/199812180065 Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:00:00 GMT Ben Pimlott This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair Hugo Young Macmillan, 558pp, £20

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